Information Presentation Formats
| Status: | Completed |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Brain Cancer |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Oncology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 8/3/2016 |
| Start Date: | October 2014 |
| End Date: | May 2016 |
Information Presentation Formats and Pursuit of Diagnostic Information
Prevention and early detection of medical problems can greatly reduce health care costs, yet
time and again, people avoid or ignore services that could help detect medical problems
early enough to prevent or reduce the severity of potential problems. The investigators seek
to understand whether the elicitation of symptom admission by patients can predict people's
perceived risk of the medical condition and voluntary pursuit of medical information.
time and again, people avoid or ignore services that could help detect medical problems
early enough to prevent or reduce the severity of potential problems. The investigators seek
to understand whether the elicitation of symptom admission by patients can predict people's
perceived risk of the medical condition and voluntary pursuit of medical information.
We will present individuals with medically accurate information about a medical condition
and measure people's perceptions of their own likelihood to having that medical condition.
This will include an opportunity for people to pursue more information by directing them to
a website that features more information about the condition. The initial information
provision will vary slightly in presentation (method of eliciting symptoms will vary), and
the rate at which individuals visit the subsequent medical website to receive more
information will be recorded as a measure of information seeking behavior. Rates will be
compared across symptom elicitation conditions to determine which formats are most effective
at encouraging information seeking about health issues. No personally identifying
information will be collected, and all results will be reported in aggregate. Critically, no
deception will be used: Participants will only be provided with information that is as
accurate as possible (given existing knowledge in the health/medical fields).
and measure people's perceptions of their own likelihood to having that medical condition.
This will include an opportunity for people to pursue more information by directing them to
a website that features more information about the condition. The initial information
provision will vary slightly in presentation (method of eliciting symptoms will vary), and
the rate at which individuals visit the subsequent medical website to receive more
information will be recorded as a measure of information seeking behavior. Rates will be
compared across symptom elicitation conditions to determine which formats are most effective
at encouraging information seeking about health issues. No personally identifying
information will be collected, and all results will be reported in aggregate. Critically, no
deception will be used: Participants will only be provided with information that is as
accurate as possible (given existing knowledge in the health/medical fields).
Inclusion Criteria:
- 18 or older
- American
Exclusion Criteria:
- Mechanical Turk approval rate below 95%
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