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An explicit values clarification task: development and validation.

Deb Feldman-Stewart1, Sarah Brennenstuhl, Michael D Brundage

  • 1Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada. deb-feldman-stewart@krcc.on.ca

Patient Education and Counseling
|July 25, 2006
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A values clarification exercise (VCE) with a summary was found most helpful for patients making treatment decisions. Its validity was confirmed when integrated into a prostate cancer decision aid.

Area of Science:

  • Decision science
  • Health psychology
  • Medical decision making

Background:

  • Effective decision aids are crucial for patients facing treatment choices.
  • Values clarification exercises (VCEs) aim to align patient decisions with their personal values.
  • Prostate cancer treatment decisions present complex choices for patients.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare two VCEs to identify the most helpful for patients' treatment decisions.
  • To assess the convergent validity of the preferred VCE within a prostate cancer decision aid.

Main Methods:

  • Study 1: 90 volunteers evaluated hypothetical treatment decisions with or without a VCE, or in a control group.
  • Study 2: 69 early-stage prostate cancer patients used a decision aid incorporating the most effective VCE from Study 1.

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  • Assessments included decisional conflict, treatment valuation, and regret.

    • Main Results:

    • The VCE incorporating a summary was ranked as most helpful by participants in Study 1.
    • In Study 2, VCE outputs demonstrated predictable associations with decision aid assessments, supporting convergent validity.

    Conclusions:

    • The VCE with a summary demonstrated convergent validity when used within a decision aid for prostate cancer.
    • Further randomized controlled trials are needed to confirm the VCE's benefit over standard decision aids.