Charting Your Course: Formative Evaluation of a Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision Aid

Men with prostate cancer are faced with making a treatment decision. Charting Your Course is an interactive CD-ROM that educates patients and facilitates treatment decision-making. This paper eports formative valuation results leading to a prototype. Prototype test results indicate an increase in knowledge about brachytherapy and staging, and in perceived self-efficacy in discussing brachytherapy. The fully developed CD-ROM is expected to facilitate discussion and shared decision-making among patients, their partners and their physicians