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

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 where the d... Mehr ...