Visual Representations of Risk Enhance Long-Term Retention of Risk Information: A Randomized Trial.
Bradley A ArrickKatarzyna J BlochLaura Stein ColelloSteven WoloshinLisa M SchwartzPublished in: Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making (2019)
Overestimation of cancer risk among people with a family history of cancer is common. Counseling can improve risk perception, but individuals tend to revert back to their prior misperception 6 months after counseling. By including visual representations of risk during counseling, correction of risk perception was of greater magnitude and more durable.