Community Support Program for Lung Cancer Screening (LCS)

Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Behavior; Lung Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Transportation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06207435

UPCC 07523

852598

Details and patient eligibility

About

The research study aims to create a program for lung cancer screening attendance

Full description

The overall objective of this project is to demonstrate the impact of a community support program (CSP) on improving adherence to LCS follow-up guidelines in an urban environment. The project aims to collaborate with community partners to develop an infrastructure and iterative process to provide social support to community members that facilitates obtaining their follow-up LDCT for LCS. It utilizes novel population level data that includes geospatial analysis of neighborhood-level data of patients residing in Philadelphia who have received a LDCT for LCS. This allows for targeted community level interventions and the ability to evaluate impact on a population level.

A Community Support Program Representative will reach out to eligible patients via telephone. The CSP Representative and Patient Navigator will communicate with consented patient directly, assist with travel and the appointment. The PN will log the date of the appointment, zip code of the patient and the adherence (or lack of) of the appointment completion. We will utilize Lyft transportation vouchers to provide rides to participants from their home location in West Philadelphia to and from the Penn Medicine downtown hospital locations on the day of their LDCT.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 89 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Upcoming or missed follow-up LDCT (low dose CT)
• West Philadelphia resident
• Between 18-89 years' old

Exclusion criteria

• No upcoming LDCT
• Lives outside West Philadelphia
• Outside age range

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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26 participants in 2 patient groups

West Philadelphia Residents

Experimental group

Description:

For eligible residents of West Philadelphia, patients are contacted by Community Support Program Representative and offered free Lyft transportation to and from appointment. If patient has other questions about their upcoming appointment (location, time, etc.), Patient Navigator assists in answering questions

Treatment:

Behavioral: Transportation

Non West Philadelphia Residents

No Intervention group

Description:

For patients outside West Philadelphia, no contact is made and no free transportation is provided. Research coordinator logs their appointment attendance after the appointment date in question.