A Community Health Worker Intervention to Improve Lung Cancer Screening Uptake in Community Health Centers
Recruiting · NCT07168629 · Interventional (participants receive a specific treatment) · Lead sponsor: Baystate Medical Center
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What this trial is about
Lung cancer screening (LCS) can reduce lung cancer-related mortality by 20%, but only 5-10% of eligible individuals have received an initial LCS. The goal of this study is to partner with community stakeholders to jointly develop and pilot test a multi-component community health worker-delivered intervention targeting key barriers to improve LCS and tobacco treatment utilization. The proposed activities will lay the groundwork for a subsequent R01 grant, conducting a fully powered randomized clinical trial to establish CHWs as an evidence-based practice that will facilitate access to screening and tobacco treatment, to reduce lung cancer mortality.
Who can take part
Inclusion criteria
- Adults between the age of 50 and 80.
- Potentially eligible for LCS according to the Electronic Health Record smoking history.
- Receive their primary care at Mason Square, High Street, or Brightwood community health centers.
- English- or Spanish- speaking.
Exclusion criteria
- Not eligible for lung cancer screening based on age (age \< 50 or \> 80 years) or smoking history (has not smoked more than 20 pack-years of tobacco cigarettes or quit more than 15 years ago).
- Have received a lung cancer screen in the past.
Where it is running
1 location listed across 1 US state.
- Baystate Health - Springfield, Massachusetts, United States