Evaluation of existing patient educational materials and development of a brochure for women with dense breasts.

Autor: Warner ET; Department of Medicine, Mongan Institute, Clinical Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: ewarner@mgh.harvard.edu., Kennedy M; Chronic Disease Division, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA, USA., Maschke A; Department of Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Women's Health Unit, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA., Hopkins MF; Department of Medicine, Mongan Institute, Clinical Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA., Wernli K; Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA, USA., Gunn CM; Chronic Disease Division, Boston Public Health Commission, Boston, MA, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Breast (Edinburgh, Scotland) [Breast] 2020 Apr; Vol. 50, pp. 81-84. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Feb 05.
DOI: 10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.001
Abstrakt: Objectives: In this pilot study, we developed and assessed acceptability of a brochure for women with dense breasts.
Material and Methods: We measured Flesch-Kincaid Readability of 22 existing breast density educational materials. We then developed a brochure and tested it in two populations of women: 44 safety net hospital patients and 13 Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium stakeholders.
Results: Average grade score of existing materials was 10.0 (range: 5.5-12.7). Our brochure had a grade score of 5.9, and patients reported it was easy to understand.
Conclusion: Our plain language brochure could improve patient understanding following mandatory dense breast notification.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors have no conflicts of interest to report.
(Copyright © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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