The Effect of Numerical Statements of Risk on Trust and Comfort with Hypothetical Physician Risk Communication

Andrea D. Gurmankin, Jonathan Baron and Katrina Armstrong
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Andrea D. Gurmankin: Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Jonathan Baron: Psychology Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Katrina Armstrong: Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia

Medical Decision Making, 2004, vol. 24, issue 3, 265-271

Abstract: Objective . To contribute to the debate about whether numeric statements of risk ought to be included in risk communications. Design . Subjects ( n = 115) completed a questionnaire involving a physician risk communication and 4 scenarios, each of which described a patient with symptoms and signs potentially suggestive of cancer. Each scenario was presented in 3 risk communication versions (a verbal version and 2 numeric versions) in a within-subject 4 × 3 design. Subjects rated their trust in and comfort with the information and their belief that the physician distorted their risk level. Results . Subjects were significantly more trusting of ( t =4.0, P

Keywords: risk communication; trust; numeracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X04265482

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