From information processing to behavioral intentions: Exploring cancer patients’ motivations for clinical trial enrollment

• In Event: Navigating the cancer continuum

Abstract

To investigate cancer patients’ motivations for clinical trial enrollment, this study tests the proposition that a model of Risk Information Seeking and Processing could serve as an antecedent to the Theory of Planned Behavior. With data from a telephone survey, we found that risk judgment and affective responses, especially optimistic feelings, had the most consistent relationships with cancer patients’ attitudes and behavioral intentions related to clinical trial enrollment.

Authors

• Zheng Yang, University at Buffalo

• Katherine McComas, Cornell University

• Geri Gay, Cornell University

• John P. Leonard, Weill Cornell Medical College

• Andrew J. Dannenberg, Weill Cornell Medical College

• Hildy Dillon, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society