NCT05937399

Project PLUS Lung Cancer Screening Promotion

Project PLUS- Promoting Lung Cancer Screening Among Screening-Eligible Individuals in Environmentally Burdened Communities Through Enhanced Risk Communication

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 34 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Project PLUS is a pilot study that aims to develop and obtain preliminary feasibility and efficacy data on an enhanced risk communication approach to promote lung cancer screening (LCS) intentions among screening-eligible individuals from environmentally burdened communities. Project PLUS will combine qualitative interviews to explore subject awareness regarding lung cancer risk and air pollution, barriers to LCS, and perceptions regarding risk communication messaging, develop a health education video, and a between-subjects experiment to compare Data from this pilot will form the basis for enhanced community engagement efforts and subsequent communication research to examine the effectiveness of incorporating the involuntary air pollution risk information in risk communication interventions. The long term goal is to reduce lung cancer burden and disparities among environmentally burdened communities within and outside of Philadelphia.

Detailed description

Project PLUS is a pilot study that aims to develop and obtain preliminary feasibility and efficacy data on an enhanced risk communication approach to promote lung cancer screening (LCS) intentions among screening-eligible individuals from environmentally burdened communities. Project PLUS will combine qualitative interviews to explore subject awareness regarding lung cancer risk and air pollution, barriers to LCS, and perceptions regarding risk communication messaging, develop a health education video, and a between-subjects experiment to compare Data from this pilot will form the basis for enhanced community engagement efforts and subsequent communication research to examine the effectiveness of incorporating the involuntary air pollution risk information in risk communication interventions. The long term goal is to reduce lung cancer burden and disparities among environmentally burdened communities within and outside of Philadelphia. This study is guided by the Health Belief Model and the Reasoned Action Approach.1 The study team will engage with two community partner organizations (Chester Environmental Partnership and Clean Water Action) to obtain feedback in implementing the study procedures and input on content for the health education video. The long-term goal is to improve LCS and reduce racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in lung cancer mortality.

Conditions

• Lung Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intervention video	This intervention is an integrated health video provides individual (smoking) and environmental risk communication on intention to obtain lung cancer screening.
BEHAVIORAL	Control video	This intervention is an integrated health video provides individual (smoking) risk communication on intention to obtain lung cancer screening.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-12-02
• Primary completion: 2023-02-28
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2023-07-10
• Last updated: 2025-04-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States