Patient Portal and Navigation Program in Providing Information for Asian American Cancer Patients

University of California San Francisco (UCSF)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Stage II Liver Cancer; Stage IIIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IA2 Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIIA Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIIC Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IA1 Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Physician; Stage IIB Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIIC Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage III Liver Cancer; Stage IIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Caregiver; Stage I Liver Cancer; Stage IIIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage III Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Malignant Neoplasm; Stage IIA Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIC Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IB Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IIIB Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage IA3 Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage II Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage I Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage I Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8; Stage II Lung Cancer AJCC v8; Stage III Colorectal Cancer AJCC v8

Treatments: Behavioral: Patient Navigation Program; Other: Survey Administration; Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03867916

NCI-2018-02196 (Registry Identifier)

184511

Details and patient eligibility

About

This phase I/II trial studies how well patient portal and navigation program work in providing information for Asian American cancer patients. Patient portal and navigation program may help to improve the care provided to Asian American cancer patients.This study is offered in the following languages in addition to English: Chinese (Cantonese or Mandarin) and Vietnamese.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Identify Asian American adults newly diagnosed with colorectal, liver, or lung cancer using a population-based cancer registry.

II. Conduct outreach to these patients to let them know about the availability of information on these cancers, the Patient Cancer OUtreach, Navigation, Technology and Support (COUNTS) web portal, and the Patient COUNTS patient navigation program.

III. Provide patient navigation either virtually or in-person.

OUTLINE:

Patients attend focus groups to help develop patient portal and navigation program. Patients use in-person navigation program. In phase II, patients use an online portal to access navigation program and may choose to have online/virtual navigation support or in-person navigation support. Patients also complete data collection and surveys over 15 minutes via web portal at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months and user experience survey at end of program participation.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• FOR INTERVIEWS AND FOCUS GROUPS:

  • Cancer patients: Self-identifies as Asian American, lives in San Francisco, speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese, has a history of cancer of any kind
  • Caregivers: any person age 21 and older who has provided care to an Asian American cancer patient
  • Health professionals: physicians and other health professionals age 21 and older who provide care to Asian American patients with cancer

• FOR PILOT IMPLEMENTATION:

  • Self-identifies as Asian American
  • Ages 21 or older
  • Lives in the 9 counties of the greater bay area cancer registry (GBACR)
  • Speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese
  • Has any stage colorectal, lung, or liver cancer
  • Has not started treatment or has not completed treatment
  • Is willing to stay in the study for six months.

• FOR FULL IMPLEMENTATION:

  • Self-identifies as Asian American
  • Ages 21 or older
  • Lives in the 9 counties of the GBACR
  • Speaks English, Mandarin, Cantonese, or Vietnamese
  • Has any stage colorectal, lung, or liver cancer,
  • Has not started or has not completed treatment
  • Is willing to stay in the study for six-seven months

Exclusion criteria

*Any medical or psychological conditions precluding informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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106 participants in 1 patient group

Health services research (Patient COUNTS)

Experimental group

Description:

Patients attend focus groups to help develop patient portal and navigation program. Patients use in-person navigation program. Patients also complete data collection and surveys over 15 minutes via web portal at baseline, 3 months, and 6 months and user experience survey at end of program participation.

Treatment:

Other: Survey Administration

Other: Quality-of-Life Assessment

Behavioral: Patient Navigation Program