Community Primary Care Providers to Implement and Disseminate Cancer Prevention Interventions for Latino Populations

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Terminated

Conditions: For New York State Registered Family Practitioners and Internal Medicine Physicians

Treatments: Behavioral: in-depth, semi-structured interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01803750

13-031

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to understand primary care provider's knowledge, attitudes, and barriers to promoting evidence-based cancer screening and prevention practices for physicians with large Latino patient populations. The investigators will ask providers information on cancer screening and prevention practices by conducting one-on-one interviews. In addition, they would like to develop a committee of community providers to help design and implement cancer screening and prevention programs specifically for Latino patients based on the interview findings.

Enrollment: 3 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• New York State registered family practitioners and internal medicine physicians
• Minimum one half of their patients are Latino (provider self-reported)
• Currently practice in a small clinical setting (defined by no more than 5 providers) including community clinics, and/or private practice in Queens, Brooklyn, Bron and Staten Island, New York
• No active affiliation with a major hospital or academic institution.

Exclusion criteria

• Practicing medicine for less than 2 years
• Practicing in a setting where no health insurance is accepted

Trial design

3 participants in 1 patient group

Primary Care Providers

Description:

Conduct and analyze in-depth, semi-structured interviews with community-based primary care providers serving large Latino populations and Form a community-based participatory committee.

Treatment:

Behavioral: in-depth, semi-structured interviews