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

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Lung Neoplasms, Early Detection of Cancer, Decision Support Techniques, Primary Health Care

In brief

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.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03077230

Run by

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

People needed

62

Starts

2015-05-01

Expected to finish

2017-04-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-20

Who can join

Age: 55 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 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.

You may not qualify if…

• 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.

Where it is running

• UNC Ambulatory Care Center Internal Medicine Clinic — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States

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