NCT03244787

Patient Navigation for Colorectal Cancer Screening for Patients With Mental Illness and/or Substance Use Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 380 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators propose to develop, implement, and evaluate a novel Colorectal (CRC) screening patient navigator program for patients with Mental Health (MH) and /or Substance Use Disorder (SUD) receiving care at Massachusetts General Hospital Charlestown. The study will involve randomly assigning eligible patients to early intervention or usual care/delayed intervention groups. The investigators believe this random assignment is ethical because Patient Navigation (PN) is an extremely limited resource, and all patients identified as eligible could not be contacted by the navigators in a short period of time. Thus the investigators will randomly assign access to PN during the study period, and then allow all patients to be navigated and screened after the study period is over. As a result, all eligible patients will be referred for PN, but the timing of the referral will be randomly assigned.

Conditions

• ColoRectal Cancer Screening

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	patient navigation	Current standard of care is for PNs to work with patients from health centers who are referred by providers. Intervention patients will appear on a PN list without any referral by providers. Control high risk patients will proceed normally and will be eligible to transfer to a PN list after the 6-month study period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-01-01
• Primary completion: 2018-01-01
• Completion: 2018-01-01
• First posted: 2017-08-10
• Last updated: 2018-03-22