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Fuller, Richard, Dudley, Nigel and Blacktop, Jon (2001) Risk communication and older people - understanding of probability and risk information by medical inpatients aged 75 years and older. Age and Ageing, 30 (6). pp. 473-476. ISSN 0002-0729
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Objective: to determine older people's understanding of probability and risk information, and the impact of pictorial representation of risk.
Design: a researcher-administered questionnaire.
Subjects: 50 inpatients aged 75 years on elderly medicine wards at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary, Huddersfield, UK.
Results: older people understand percentage probability better than fractional probability, and a wide range of incorrect responses indicated significant over- and underestimation of probabilities. Visual data about percentages were well received and understood, and were perceived as a good idea by participants.
Conclusions: we have demonstrated a wide variation in understanding of risk and probability information by older people, with over- and underestimations of probability, along with confusion between fractional and percentage probability. Pictorial representation of probability was well understood. It could be developed as a simple, yet powerful communication tool to be used in daily clinical practice to help older people understand information on risks and benefits when making decisions about treatment choices.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Schools: | School of Human and Health Sciences School of Human and Health Sciences > Centre for Applied Childhood Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Cherry Edmunds |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2008 10:31 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jan 2011 13:28 |
| URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/2495 |
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