Measuring Informed Decision Making About Cancer Screening

Mullen PD, Allen JD, Glanz K, Fernandez ME, Bowen DJ, Pruitt SL, Glenn BA, Pignone M. Measures used in studies of informed decision making about cancer screening:  A systematic review.  [Special Issue] Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 2006;32(3):188-201.

Full Search Strategy

PubMed Search Strategy:

Search ((patient education OR "informed decision" OR "informed decisions" OR "informed choice" OR "informed choices" OR self-efficacy OR "Decision Making"[MeSH:NoExp] OR "deci-sion making") AND (mass screening OR "screening") AND (breast neoplasms OR mammogra-phy OR "breast examination" OR "breast examinations" OR cervical neoplasms OR vaginal smears OR pap OR papanicolaou OR colorectal neoplasms OR colonoscopy OR sigmoido-scopy OR occult blood OR prostatic neoplasm OR prostate specific antigen OR PSA)) NOT ge-netic screening[major] Limits: Publication Date from 2003/01/01 to 2005/11/1, English
 

PubMed actually runs the search this way:

((("patient education"[MeSH Terms] OR patient education[Text Word]) OR "informed deci-sion"[All Fields] OR "informed decisions"[All Fields] OR "informed choice"[All Fields] OR "in-formed choices"[All Fields] OR ("self efficacy"[MeSH Terms] OR self-efficacy[Text Word]) OR "Decision Making"[MeSH:noexp] OR "decision making"[All Fields]) AND (("mass screen-ing"[MeSH Terms] OR mass screening[Text Word]) OR "screening"[All Fields]) AND (("breast neoplasms"[MeSH Terms] OR breast neoplasms[Text Word]) OR ("mammography"[MeSH Terms] OR mammography[Text Word]) OR "breast examination"[All Fields] OR "breast exami-nations"[All Fields] OR (("cervix neoplasms"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "cervix neo-plasms"[MeSH Terms] OR cervical neoplasms[Text Word]) OR ("vaginal smears"[MeSH Terms] OR vaginal smears[Text Word]) OR pap[All Fields] OR papanicolaou[All Fields] OR ("colorectal neoplasms"[MeSH Terms] OR colorectal neoplasms[Text Word]) OR ("colonoscopy"[MeSH Terms] OR colonoscopy[Text Word]) OR ("sigmoidoscopy"[MeSH Terms] OR sigmoido-scopy[Text Word]) OR ("occult blood"[MeSH Terms] OR occult blood[Text Word]) OR (("prostatic neoplasms"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "prostatic neoplasms"[MeSH Terms] OR prostatic neoplasm[Text Word]) OR (("prostate-specific antigen"[TIAB] NOT Medline[SB]) OR "prostate-specific antigen"[MeSH Terms] OR prostate specific antigen[Text Word]) OR PSA[All Fields])) NOT "genetic screening"[MeSH Major Topic] AND English[Lang] AND ("2003/01/01"[PDAT] : "2005/11/1"[PDAT])

CINAHL Search Strategy:

(((((((((MH "Breast Examination+")) or (MH "Cervical Smears+")) or (MH "Prostate-Specific Anti-gen")) or (MH "Mammography")) or (MH "Colonoscopy+")) or (MH "Occult Blood")) or (MH "Breast Neoplasms+")) or (MH "Cervix Neoplasms")) or (MH "Prostatic Neoplasms") AND (MH "Cancer Screening") AND (((MH "Decision Making, Patient")) or (MH "Self-Efficacy")) or (MH "Health Education")

PsycINFO Search Strategy:

Screening AND (patient education OR informed decision* OR self-efficacy OR decision making) AND (((breast OR cervix OR colorectal OR rectal OR anus OR anal gland OR Sigmoid OR prostate*) AND (cancer or neoplasm*)) OR mammography OR vaginal smear* OR PAP OR pa-panicolaou OR colonoscopy OR sigmoidoscopy OR occult blood OR prostate-specific atigen OR PSA)