About this trial
The goal of this observational study is to understand the barriers and facilitators to completing colorectal cancer screening from the patient and community health center staff perspective. The main question it aims to answer is to identify system-level determinants of colorectal cancer screening in individuals aged 45 to 54. Participants will be asked to partake in one-time interviews either online or in-person and community health center staff will also be asked to take an online survey.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Individuals aged 45-54
Individuals who are patients at the health center
Individuals that are willing and able to give verbal/written consent
Disqualifiers
Individuals with a personal history of CRC
Individuals with a family history of CRC
Individuals with a history of inflammatory bowel disease or high-risk cancer syndrome
Individuals ages 18+
Trial population
Survey participants will involve staff members and providers (ages 18+) involved with CRC screening processes. Patients will be health center patients.
Trial design
Other
Other
Treatments tested in this trial
Not listed
Trial groups
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Measurement of acceptability and feasibility of implementation strategies
For our primary outcome, participants will be asked to rate the acceptability and feasibility of implementation strategies using a previously validated instrument, which the investigator previously used with CHC staff. This tool has demonstrated good internal consistency reliability (0.85 for acceptability and 0.89 for feasibility) and similarly good test-retest reliability (correlations: acceptability- 0.80; feasibility - 0.88) and validity in a known groups analysis. There are no cut off numbers for acceptability and feasibility as these are just means but higher scores reflect higher acceptability. However, our surveys will allow us to better understand our survey findings. Quantitative survey interviews will be collected after first and second cycle of testing. The surveys and interviews will be measured together as this is a mixed methods study.
Secondary outcomes
Measurement of reach, effectiveness, and maintenance of implementation strategies
For secondary outcomes, descriptive statistics (relative frequencies, means, variability) will be used to evaluate reach (the number of patients offered CRC screening measured by calculating the number of patients with a FIT order or colonoscopy referral during the pilot testing period), effectiveness (time to CRC screening measured by assessing the difference in the date CRC screening was completed compared to the start date of pilot testing and number screened for CRC pre and post intervention), and maintenance (percentage of program components maintained). The investigator will use generalized linear models to estimate the level of effectiveness, reach, and maintenance across clinical characteristics and sociodemographics with a particular focus on characteristics around equity. This is a mixed methods study where interviews and descriptive statistics will be measured together as mixed methods study.
Sponsors and contacts
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Lead sponsor
American College of Gastroenterology
Collaborator
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Collaborator