Decision‐making in screening positive participants who follow up with colonoscopy in the Dutch colorectal cancer screening programme: A mixed‐method study

Abstract Objective To explore worry and decision‐making processes used by faecal immunochemical test (FIT)‐positive participants in the Dutch national screening programme for colorectal cancer. Methods A mixed‐methods study consisting of 22 semi‐structured interviews in FIT‐positive participants who underwent the recommended colonoscopy within 4–6 months after the FIT result, followed by a widespread questionnaire in a larger target population ( N = 1495). Results In the interviews, we recognised two different decision‐making processes. The first is an affective heuristic decision process wher... Mehr ...