PMID- 29731612 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20240324 IS - 1177-889X (Print) IS - 1177-889X (Electronic) IS - 1177-889X (Linking) VI - 12 DP - 2018 TI - Developing and piloting an instrument to prioritize the worries of patients with acute myeloid leukemia. PG - 647-655 LID - 10.2147/PPA.S151752 [doi] AB - BACKGROUND: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a rapidly progressing blood cancer for which new treatments are needed. We sought to promote patient-focused drug development (PFDD) for AML by developing and piloting an instrument to prioritize the worries of patients with AML. PATIENTS AND METHODS: An innovative community-centered approach was used to engage expert and community stakeholders in the development, pretesting, pilot testing, and dissemination of a novel best-worst scaling instrument. Patient worries were identified through individual interviews (n=15) and group calls. The instrument was developed through rigorous pretesting (n=13) and then piloted among patients and caregivers engaged in this study (n=25). Priorities were assessed using best-worst scores (spanning from +1 to -1) representing the relative number of times that items were endorsed as the most and the least worrying. All findings were presented at a PFDD meeting at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that was attended by >80 stakeholders. RESULTS: The final instrument included 13 worries spanning issues such as decision making, treatment delivery, physical impacts, and psychosocial effects. Patients and caregivers most prioritized worries about dying from their disease (best minus worst [BW] score=0.73), long-term side effects (BW=0.28), and time in hospital (BW=0.25). CONCLUSION: Community-centered approaches are valuable in designing and executing PFDD meetings and associated quantitative surveys to document the experience of patients. Expert and community stakeholders welcomed the opportunity to share their experiences with the FDA and strongly endorsed implementing this survey nationally. FAU - Bridges, John Fp AU - Bridges JF AD - Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. FAU - Oakes, Allison H AU - Oakes AH AD - Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. FAU - Reinhart, Crystal A AU - Reinhart CA AD - Center for Prevention Research and Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA. FAU - Voyard, Ernest AU - Voyard E AD - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, NY, USA. FAU - O'Donoghue, Bernadette AU - O'Donoghue B AD - The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, Rye Brook, NY, USA. LA - eng GR - T32 HS000029/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20180427 PL - New Zealand TA - Patient Prefer Adherence JT - Patient preference and adherence JID - 101475748 PMC - PMC5927351 OTO - NOTNLM OT - acute myeloid leukemia OT - best-worst scaling OT - community engagement OT - patient-focused drug development OT - stated-preference COIS- Disclosure Ernest Voyard and Bernadette O'Donoghue are employees of the LLS. The other authors report no conflicts of interest in this work. EDAT- 2018/05/08 06:00 MHDA- 2018/05/08 06:01 PMCR- 2018/04/27 CRDT- 2018/05/08 06:00 PHST- 2018/05/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/05/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/05/08 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/04/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - ppa-12-647 [pii] AID - 10.2147/PPA.S151752 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Patient Prefer Adherence. 2018 Apr 27;12:647-655. doi: 10.2147/PPA.S151752. eCollection 2018.