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

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 wome...

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Autores principales: Warner, Erica T., Kennedy, Mark, Maschke, Ariel, Hopkins, Margaret F., Wernli, Karen, Gunn, Christine M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7110420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32086135
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.001
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Kennedy, Mark
Maschke, Ariel
Hopkins, Margaret F.
Wernli, Karen
Gunn, Christine M.
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description 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.
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spelling pubmed-71104202020-07-29 Evaluation of existing patient educational materials and development of a brochure for women with dense breasts Warner, Erica T. Kennedy, Mark Maschke, Ariel Hopkins, Margaret F. Wernli, Karen Gunn, Christine M. Breast Short Communication 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. Elsevier 2020-02-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7110420/ /pubmed/32086135 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.breast.2020.02.001 Text en © 2020 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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