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Ms Sian Smith

PhD Student
Research Assistant STEP

Room 126A
School of Public Health
Edward Ford Building (A27)
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006

Phone: +61 2 9351 7186
Fax: +61 2 9351 5049

http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/step/
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/cemped/
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Publications
Peer Reviewed/Refereed Journal Articles

Smith SK, Trevena L, Barratt A, Dixon A, Nutbeam D, Simpson JM, McCaffery KJ. Development and preliminary evaluation of a bowel cancer screening decision aid for adults with lower literacy. Patient Education and Counseling. 75 (2009) 358–367

Smith S.K, Trevena L, Nutbeam D, Barratt A, McCaffery K.J. Information needs and preferences of low and high literacy consumers for decisions about colorectal cancer screenings: utilizing a linguistic model. Health Expectations 2008;11:(2), 123-136.

Projects

Development and evaluation of a literacy sensitive decision aid for colorectal cancer screening

McCaffery K, Smith S, Trevena L, Barratt A, Simpson J, Nutbeam D.

Associate investigators:Butow P, Irwig L

This project is funded by the Sydney Cancer Research Fund and the NHMRC. The project will develop and evaluate by randomised trial a FOBT screening decision aid for adults with limited literacy. The project also includes a substudy investigating optimal graphic formats for presenting risk information to adults with limited literacy and numeracy skills. The findings from this will inform the prsentation of quantitative risk information included in the decision aid.

Sydney Cancer Research Fund. $100,000.

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Testing graphical risk presentation format among adults with low literacy

McCaffery K, Dixon A, Smith S, Trevana L, Hayen A, Barratt A, Irwig L, Nutbeam D, Simpson J.

This study is a sub study of the above listed project. The aim is to the determine optimal graphic format to present risk information to adults with low literacy and education. 120 adults will be recruited from adult education classes in NSW for testing of different graph formats. The results of this study will inform the design of the decision aid described above.

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