A Physician-Based Trial to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in Chinese

Status:	Archived
Conditions:	Colorectal Cancer, Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:	Oncology
Healthy:	No
Age Range:	Any
Updated:	7/1/2011
Start Date:	July 2007
End Date:	July 2012

The objective of this study is to test whether a culturally-tailored in-office based
intervention have impact on increasing Chinese physician's recommendation of colorectal
cancer (CRC) screening to their nonadherent Chinese patients.

Special aims are to:

1. Evaluate the efficacy of a culturally-tailored physician intervention on increasing
non-adherent Chinese American's patients' CRC screening rate.

2. Identify factors that mediate or moderate the intervention effects. For example,
patients who hold an eastern cultural view or are less acculturated will be more likely
to benefit from the intervention than patients who hold a western view or who are more
acculturated.

This study is a randomized controlled trial aiming to test the effect of the
culturally-tailored in-office based intervention on physicians. A total of 24 Chinese
physicians in the Washington DC and Philadelphia areas and a total of 24 eligible Chinese
patients from each physician will be recruited for this study. Physicians and their patients
are randomized into two groups: A and B. Physician in the intervention group (A) will
receive mailed printed materials including a CRC physician guide, patient brochure, flip
chart and a poster and two sessions of in-office training aimed to reinforce learning of the
topic covered by the mailed materials and provide physicians with hands-on experience in
using communication skills with standardized patients. Physicians in the control group (B)
will receive nothing until the end of the study. Patients will be followed 12-month later
after their completion of the baseline survey and their self-reported CRC screening status
will be verified by chart audit.

We found this trial at

sites

Georgetown Univ Med Ctr

4000 Reservoir Road NW, Suite 120
Washington, Washington DC 20007

(202) 687-0100