Various researchers have studied SCOPED and related models and applications.
Belkora and colleagues have published studies applying SCOPED or its antecedents, finding evidence of acceptability and effectiveness with diverse audiences whether delivered by professionals, peers or trainees. Previously, researchers had shown that critical reflection (using checklists and prompt sheets that inspired SCOPED) is effective in helping stimulate questions for people to ask their doctors.
More generally, decision aids guide people through decisions by presenting information about conditions or situations; choices; and outcomes. They rely on an analytic approach that also inspired SCOPED. In medicine, randomized controlled studies have shown that decision aids are associated with increased knowledge and satisfaction compared to general pamphlets or other usual care controls.
Please review the bibliography at www.jeffbelkora.com/evidence for references to specific studies and reports. An early version of SCOPED was first published in Belkora et al. Patient Educ Couns, 2006.64: p. 350-9. The first reference to the current version of SCOPED appears in Belkora et al. Implementation Science 2008, 3:6 (available at http://www.implementationscience.com/content/3/1/6).
Those wishing to cite SCOPED may wish to point other readers to this website, www.scoped.org, or a detailed case study:
Belkora JK, Loth MK, Volz S, and Rugo HS. Implementing decision and communication aids to facilitate patient-centered care in breast cancer: A case study. Patient Educ Couns 2009;77:360-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19850438.
Further research involving SCOPED is underway at the University of California, San Francisco; with the Cancer Resource Centers of Mendocino County; at the Cancer Support Community; and at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Centre. Please contact Jeff Belkora for more information.
