Advancing Lung Cancer Screening One Text at a Time

University of Rochester

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Lung Cancer Screening

Treatments: Behavioral: Text messaging program; Behavioral: Educational material

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07227480

STUDY00010975

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of text messaging to promote lung cancer screening.

Full description

We will conduct a two-arm pilot randomized controlled trial with 40 adults. Participants will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either UR Screened (a text messaging program designed to promote lung cancer screening) or a control group (a mailed educational material along with a flyer for the lung cancer screening program). We will assess recruitment and follow-up rates, satisfaction with the program or educational material, and uptake of lung cancer screening at week 12. Additionally, we will compare screening rates between the intervention and control groups.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 50 to 80 years old
• have not completed their annual screening for lung cancer
• have a 20 pack-year smoking history
• currently smoke or have quit within the past 15 years
• speak English and/or Spanish
• have a functioning cellphone number with unlimited text messaging capacity
• be willing to complete a baseline and a follow-up (at Month 3) survey

Exclusion criteria

• being up-to-date on their annual lung cancer screening

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

UR Screened

Experimental group

Description:

A text messaging program designed to promote lung cancer screening

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text messaging program

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

A mailed educational material along with a flyer for the lung cancer screening program

Treatment:

Behavioral: Educational material