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



Status:Completed
Conditions:Lung Cancer
Therapuetic Areas:Oncology
Healthy:No
Age Range:55 - 80
Updated:9/21/2017
Start Date:May 2015
End Date:April 2017

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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.

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.

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.
We found this trial at
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102 Mason Farm Road
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599
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Chapel Hill, NC
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