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Record W4413971209 · doi:10.1177/10732748251372677

Early Feedback for the Development of a Novel Brief Colon Cancer Screening Decision Aid for Adults ≥75 years at Risk for Limited Health Literacy: A Pilot Study

2025· article· en· W4413971209 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueCancer Control · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicColorectal Cancer Screening and Detection
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersNational Cancer InstituteNational Institute on Aging
KeywordsMedicineHealth literacyColorectal cancer screeningLiteracyColorectal cancerCancer screeningFamily medicineMedical educationCancerHealth careInternal medicineColonoscopy

Abstract

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IntroductionAchieving health literacy is a primary goal of Healthy People 2030 due to the increasing recognition of its role to improve the health and well-being of all populations. Shared decision-making (SDM), a recognized process between patients and health care providers to discuss which health care decision is best for the patient considering the pros and cons, patient preferences, and circumstances, can improve health outcomes. Specifically, SDM can increase patient knowledge and the quality of decision-making, resulting in patients feeling more empowered, demonstrating less decisional regret, and more motivation. Yet, limited health literacy (LHL) can hinder a patient's ability to engage in the SDM process. Patients' ability to engage in SDM can be helped by improving health literacy levels, and by the suitability of the tools available to support them. Decision aids (DA) are educational tools that can help with SDM. SDM provides patients with the necessary skills, which, when paired with DAs designed with and for populations with LHL, can improve communication with health care providers.MethodsGuided by elements of the Ottawa Decision Framework and principles of human-centered design, in this retrospective study we aimed to develop a novel and current brief colon cancer screening DA, "Making a Decision: Should I Stop or Continue Colon Cancer Screening - Ages 75-85," based on feedback from adults ≥75 years at risk for LHL in two focus groups and a comprehensive health literacy demand assessment of the "Making a Decision About Colon Cancer Screening" using four tools to determine its readability, understandability, and actionability.ResultsFindings include a DA that was viewed favorably by older adult participants who were at risk for LHL.ConclusionsWith feedback from older adults at risk for LHL, we have developed a DA that can be tested in a larger randomized control trial.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.771
Threshold uncertainty score0.680

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.037
GPT teacher head0.345
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it