Health Education Approach to Lung Screening (HEALS)
Virginia Commonwealth University
Summary
Evaluate the impact of the patient navigation program on the proportion of patients who complete lung cancer screening (LCS), defined as undergoing a low dose computed tomography (LDCT)
Description
This is a single-arm study of a patient navigation intervention to increase access to lung cancer screening (LCS).
Eligibility
- Age range
- 50–80 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Meets current USPSTF guidelines for lung cancer screening (LCS) * 20 pack-year smoking history Note: A pack-year is a way of calculating how much a person has smoked in their lifetime. One pack-year is the equivalent of smoking an average of 20 cigarettes-1 pack-per day for a year. * Currently smokes or has quit smoking within the past 15 years * Identifies as Black or African-American Note: Both Hispanic/Latino and Non-Hispanic/Latino patients are eligible as long as they also identify as Black or African-American (eg, Afro-Latino). * Willing to complete all navigatio…
Interventions
- BehavioralPatient Navigation
Navigation will address the following 4 domains of barriers to screening: * Individual * Organizational * Economic * Sociocultural At the first visit, navigators will assess the participant's barriers in each of these domains. Any follow-up visits, if necessary, will be used to help the participant overcome these barriers to screening
Locations (3)
- University of North Carolina-Chapel HillCarrboro, North Carolina
- Medical University of South CarolinaCharleston, South Carolina
- Virginia Commonwealth UniversityRichmond, Virginia