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Dissemination of Prostate Cancer Screening to PCP's in African American Communities

NCT00629330 · Status: TERMINATED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 86

Last updated 2015-10-14

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Summary

The aims of this project are to adapt and extend the use of academic detailing to the dissemination of prostate cancer (CaP) screening findings to primary care physicians practicing in African American communities. The objectives of this study are:

1\. To test the hypothesis that a community physician-based educational intervention (multi-component academic detailing, including an interactive, digitized, web-based program for informed decision-making about prostate cancer, and patient education materials designed for low literacy patients) will increase physician knowledge, positive attitudes/beliefs toward screening and screening options, and prostate cancer screening (using the digital rectal exam, and the serum prostate specific antigen test) at baseline, 6-, and 12-months post- randomization, compared to the rate observed in a service- as-usual control.

1A. To demonstrate the feasibility of disseminating the American Cancer Society guidelines for prostate cancer screening among primary care practitioners using multi-component academic detailing.

2\. To develop models predicting which physician offices are most and least likely to adopt the intervention, and to generate hypotheses about tailoring the dissemination of PC screening guidelines to different physician subgroups.

The long term goal of this project is to increase prostate cancer screening among African American communities, thus decreasing cancer-related morbidity and mortality.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Academic Detailing

Multi-component academic detailing including an interactive, digitized CD-ROM, focused on the discussion of risks and benefits, screening options or alternatives, values clarification, and mutual decision-making, alongside patient education materials designed for low literacy patients

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Sherri Sheinfeld Gorin, PhD · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SCREENING
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2004-01-31
Primary Completion
2008-03-31
Completion
2010-11-30

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