Pre-Post Study for Supporting Appropriate Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Early Detection of Cancer

Lung Neoplasms

Decision Support Techniques

Primary Health Care

Treatments

Behavioral: Pre/Post Test of a Lung Cancer Screening Decision Aid

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03077230

LCCC 1506

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to assess the effect of the decision aid on measures of decision-making such as knowledge, screening attitudes, decisional conflict, and screening intent.

Full description

Using a single group, pre-post design, we aim to assess the effect of the decision aid on screening knowledge, screening attitudes, decisional conflict, and screening intent within 3 months of decision aid viewing.

Enrollment

62 patients

Sex

All

Ages

55 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Subjects must meet all of the following inclusion criteria to participate in this study:

Age 55 - 80;
Current smoker, or former smoker who has less than a 16-year quit history;
Have at least a 30-pack year smoking history (average packs per day * years smoking); and
Patient of the Internal Medicine Clinic at University of North Carolina Health Care.

Exclusion criteria

All subjects meeting any of the following exclusion criteria at baseline will be excluded from study participation:

Ever diagnosed with lung cancer;
Undergone chemotherapy or radiation therapy in the past 18 months prior to enrollment;
Coughed up blood from lungs (also called hemoptysis) within the past year prior to enrollment;
Experienced unexplained weight loss of 15-pounds or more during six months prior to enrollment; and
Had a chest CT scan within the past 18 months prior to enrollment.