Eber, Michael, Sunstein, Cass R., Hammitt, James K. and Yeh, Jennifer (2021) The Modest Effects of Fact Boxes on Cancer Screening. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, vol. 62. pp. 29-54.

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Identification Number : 10.1007/s11166-021-09344-x

Abstract

As health care becomes increasingly personalized to the needs and values of individual patients, informational interventions that aim to inform and debias consumer decision-making are likely to become important tools. In a randomized controlled experiment, we explore the effects of providing participants with published fact boxes on the benefits and harms of common cancer screening procedures. Female participants were surveyed about breast cancer screening by mammography, while male participants were surveyed about prostate cancer screening by prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. For these screening procedures, we expect consumers to have overly optimistic prior beliefs about the benefits and harms. We find that participants update their beliefs about the net benefits of screening modestly, but we observe little change in their stated preferences to seek screening. Participants who scored higher on a numeracy test updated their beliefs about screening benefits more in response to the fact boxes than did participants who scored lower on the numeracy test.

Item Type: Article
Language: English
Date: February 2021
Refereed: Yes
JEL Classification: C91 - Laboratory, Individual Behavior
D80 - General
I12 - Health Production - Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior
I18 - Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
Subjects: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
Divisions: TSE-R (Toulouse)
Site: UT1
Date Deposited: 18 Jan 2022 10:46
Last Modified: 18 Jul 2022 09:45
OAI Identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:126404
URI: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/44187
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