Qualitative Evaluation of Medical Information Processing Needs of 60 Women Choosing Ovarian Cancer Surveillance or Prophylactic Oophorectomy.

摘要: Thirty women who had prophylactic oophorectomy (PO) and thirty undergoing ovarian cancer surveillance (OCS) completed a one-time in-depth telephone interview exploring information gathering decision-making processes. There were close similarities between groups, including age, race, marital status, education, menopausal number genetic testing for BRCA mutations, of mastectomies. The majority participants indicated overall satisfaction with their final decision. However, many described the process as frustrating anxiety provoking. Participants in both groups expressed need to medical within context individual psychosocial needs personal perceptions experiences. recurrent themes regard informational experiences that impacted these women. present paper is companion Swisher et al. (J Repr Med 2001, 46:87-94) focus this illustrate processing identified by group