J Cancer Educ

Decision aids are tools intended to help people weigh the benefits and harms of a health decision. We examined primary care providers' perspective on use of decision aids and explored whether providers' beliefs and interest in use of a decision aid was associated with offering the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test for early detection of prostate cancer. Data were obtained from 2016 DocStyles, an annual, web-based survey of U.S. healthcare professionals including primary care physicians (n\u2009=\u20091003) and nurse practitioners (n\u2009=\u2009253). We found that the majority of primary care providers reported not using (patient) decision aids for prostate cancer screening, but were interested in learning about and incorporating these tools in their practice. Given the potential of decision aids to guide in informed decision-making, there is an opportunity for evaluating existing decision aids for prostate cancer screening for clinical use.20192020-02-01T00:00:00ZCC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United StatesAll authors are federal government employees, and the preparation of the manuscript was entirely funded by the US government./DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States29582364PMC6158108717