NCT00588211

Measurement of Cancer-Related Risk Perception in Smokers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 1,514 (actual)
• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop an accurate way of measuring people's thoughts about cancer risk. The researchers at the Queens Hospital Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Adelphi University are working together to design a new measure. Findings from this study will help us find new ways to help people avoid cancer.

Detailed description

The goal of the study is to develop and provide initial evidence for the reliability and validity of a measure of cancer-related risk perception. As such, the primary outcomes of the study will be initial construct validity (convergent validity and discriminant validity) of the proposed scale as evidenced by correlations of this test with other tests that vary in the degree of association to the proposed construct of cancer-related risk perception. It is anticipated that the cancer-related risk perception scale will correlate most highly (.50-.60) with measures of tobacco and environmental risk exposures, readiness to quit smoking, and family cancer history.

Conditions

• Cancer Related-Risks
• Risk Perception
• Survey
• Focus Group

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Interviews	45-minute individual interviews after the conclusion of their dental appointment
BEHAVIORAL	focus group	A focus group of the preliminary cancer-related risk perception item pool.
BEHAVIORAL	Survey	Quantitative item analysis of the final item pool.
BEHAVIORAL	Survey	A second confirmatory factor analysis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2001-09-01
• Primary completion: 2022-09-13
• Completion: 2022-09-13
• First posted: 2008-01-08
• Last updated: 2022-09-16

Locations

4 sites across 1 country: United States