IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0200409.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Predictors of participation in risk-based prostate cancer screening

Author

Listed:
  • Marie Koitsalu
  • Martin Eklund
  • Jan Adolfsson
  • Mirjam A G Sprangers
  • Henrik Grönberg
  • Yvonne Brandberg

Abstract

Background: Implementation of risk-based prostate cancer screening has been proposed as a means to reduce the harms of PSA screening. Little is known, however, about the factors influencing men’s decision to attend a prostate cancer screening based on a risk assessment. Method: We sent postal invitations with a login to a survey to 10.000 men, three months before invitation to a risk-based prostate cancer screening. Prostate cancer specific worry, prostate cancer-related knowledge, health behaviour, and health related quality of life were used as predictors of subsequent participation. Participation to risk-based prostate cancer screening was defined as providing a blood sample for the STHLM3 trial, a study evaluating a risk-based model that predicts the risk for aggressive prostate cancer. Results: With a response rate of 20%, 1.347 men (70%) participated in ensuing risk-based prostate cancer screening three months later whereas 568 men (30%) declined participation in the STHLM3-study. These decliners reported less worry and feeling less vulnerable to prostate cancer and responded “Do not know” more often than participants when asked questions about prostate cancer knowledge. Participants reported greater benefits of prostate testing (p = 0.0005), less barriers to prostate testing (p

Suggested Citation

  • Marie Koitsalu & Martin Eklund & Jan Adolfsson & Mirjam A G Sprangers & Henrik Grönberg & Yvonne Brandberg, 2018. "Predictors of participation in risk-based prostate cancer screening," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(7), pages 1-11, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0200409
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0200409
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200409
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0200409&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0200409?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0200409. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.