Health literacy skills for informed decision making in colorectal cancer screening: Perceptions of screening invitees and experts.

Woudstra, Anke J; Timmermans, Daniëlle R M; Uiters, Ellen; Dekker, Evelien; Smets, Ellen M A; Fransen, Mirjam P

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Woudstra, Anke J
Timmermans, Daniëlle R M
Uiters, Ellen
Dekker, Evelien
Smets, Ellen M A
Fransen, Mirjam P

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Health literacy skills for informed decision making in colorectal cancer screening: Perceptions of screening invitees and experts.

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Health Expect 2018; advance online publication (ahead of print)

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The process of informed decision making (IDM) requires an adequate level of health literacy. To ensure that all individuals have equal opportunity to make an informed decision in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, it is essential to gain more insight into which health literacy skills are needed for IDM. Our aims were (i) to explore how individuals make a decision about CRC screening and (ii) to explore which skills are needed for IDM in CRC screening and (iii) to integrate these findings within a conceptual framework.