Increasing Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Community

Mount Sinai Health System

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: Breast Neoplasms; Colorectal Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07748377

K08CA283362 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

STUDY-23-01343

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the proposed study is to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Chi gung, a community-based intervention using peer education and tailored navigation to simultaneously improve colorectal (CRC) and breast cancer (BC) screening rates.

Enrollment: 80 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 45 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 45-75 years old

• Self-identify as Chinese and born outside of the U.S.

• Speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, or English

• Not up to date on BC screening (i.e., have not had a mammogram within the past two years)

• Not up to date on CRC screening (i.e., have not had any of the following tests)

  • Colonoscopy within the past 10 years
  • Fecal immunochemical tests/fecal occult blood tests within the past year or multi-target stool DNA test within the past three years
  • Flexible sigmoidoscopy within the past 5 years
  • CT colonography within the past 5 years

Exclusion criteria

• Life expectancy ≤ 10 years or other pre-existing conditions whereby CRC or BC screening would not be recommended
• Personal history of BC or CRC
• Prior history of a total colectomy or mastectomy
• Lacks capacity to provide informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

Experimental group

Description:

Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well is a community-based intervention using peer education and tailored navigation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

Behavioral: Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

Attention Control (AC) Arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

This time-matched and attention control group will receive a general health group education session and follow-up telephone calls.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

Behavioral: Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well