Measurement of Cancer-Related Risk Perception in Smokers

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Focus Group; Risk Perception; Survey; Cancer Related-Risks

Treatments: Behavioral: Survey; Behavioral: focus group; Behavioral: Interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00588211

CA93182

01-121

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop an accurate way of measuring people's thoughts about cancer risk. The researchers at the Queens Hospital Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Adelphi University are working together to design a new measure. Findings from this study will help us find new ways to help people avoid cancer.

Full description

The goal of the study is to develop and provide initial evidence for the reliability and validity of a measure of cancer-related risk perception. As such, the primary outcomes of the study will be initial construct validity (convergent validity and discriminant validity) of the proposed scale as evidenced by correlations of this test with other tests that vary in the degree of association to the proposed construct of cancer-related risk perception. It is anticipated that the cancer-related risk perception scale will correlate most highly (.50-.60) with measures of tobacco and environmental risk exposures, readiness to quit smoking, and family cancer history.

Enrollment: 1,514 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subject must be >= to 18 years of age
• For recruitment at Adelphi University: Speak English
• For recruitment at Queens Hospital Center: Speak English
• For recruitment at Queens Hospital Center: Must be a Queens Hospital Center Patient

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have a history of colorectal cancer at the Queens Hospital Center
• Patients who cannot give informed consent

Trial design

1,514 participants in 4 patient groups

1

Description:

We will recruit fifteen New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) clinic patients who report current tobacco use.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interviews

2

Description:

Second, we will recruit thirty dental clinic smokers (10 per day for 3 days) from the NYUCD waiting room.

Treatment:

Behavioral: focus group

3

Description:

Third, we will survey 200 student participants from Adelphi University.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Survey

Behavioral: Survey

4

Description:

Queens Hospital Center with 800 patients.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Survey

Behavioral: Survey