A Patient and Provider Intervention to Address Health Disparities in Lung Cancer Screening

Georgetown University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Lung Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Provider Prompt & Patient Outreach and Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04675476

STUDY00003277

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the impact of a multilevel intervention on primary (provider-patient communication, intentions, and knowledge) and secondary (screening referrals and completion) outcomes.

Full description

The proposed study will target two key levels of influence in the healthcare setting: provider and patient behavior in order to address disparities between African American and whites in lung screening awareness and utilization. Guided by NIH's Health Disparities Research Framework and building on the formative work conducted in the K99 phase, we will conduct a quasi-experimental study (pretest-posttest, with a nonequivalent control group) in partnership with four primary care clinics within the MedStar Health system in the R00 phase.

Enrollment: 368 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 50-80 years old;
• current cigarette smoker or quit within 15 years;
• a 20+ pack-year smoking history;
• non-adherent to lung screening (>13 months);
• English-speaking;
• scheduled for an upcoming clinic appointment (4 weeks - 8 weeks); and
• able and willing to provide meaningful consent and complete telephone interviews

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals with a history of lung cancer

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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368 participants in 2 patient groups

Multilevel Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Provider Prompt & Patient Outreach and Education

Nonequivalent Control Group

No Intervention group