Community Primary Care Providers to Implement and Disseminate Cancer Prevention Interventions for Latino Populations

Building a Network of Community Primary Care Providers to Implement and Disseminate Cancer Prevention Interventions for Latino Populations

The purpose of this study is to understand primary care provider's knowledge, attitudes, and barriers to promoting evidence-based cancer screening and prevention practices for physicians with large Latino patient populations. The investigators will ask providers information on cancer screening and prevention practices by conducting one-on-one interviews. In addition, they would like to develop a committee of community providers to help design and implement cancer screening and prevention programs specifically for Latino patients based on the interview findings.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: For New York State Registered Family Practitioners and Internal Medicine Physicians
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: in-depth, semi-structured interviews

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 3

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • New York
    • New York, New York, United States, 10065
      • Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Participants will be primary care providers (PCPs) in the NYC Queens. Brooklyn ,Bronx and Staten Island, borough neighborhoods that serve large Latino populations.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• New York State registered family practitioners and internal medicine physicians
• Minimum one half of their patients are Latino (provider self-reported)
• Currently practice in a small clinical setting (defined by no more than 5 providers) including community clinics, and/or private practice in Queens, Brooklyn, Bron and Staten Island, New York
• No active affiliation with a major hospital or academic institution.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Practicing medicine for less than 2 years
• Practicing in a setting where no health insurance is accepted

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort

Intervention / Treatment

Primary Care Providers; Conduct and analyze in-depth, semi-structured interviews with community-based primary care providers serving large Latino populations and Form a community-based participatory committee.

Behavioral: in-depth, semi-structured interviews; In-depth interviews will be conducted by the Principle Investigator and will use a combination of open-ended and closed, fixed response questions. Interviews will be audio recorded if the participant agrees, and answers to fixed response questions will be marked for complete analysis. The data collection portion of the study is estimated to take approximately 8 months. Areas to be addressed in the open-ended portion of the interview include: 1) Knowledge, attitudes and beliefs toward evidence-based cancer screening and prevention approaches 2) Barriers to implementing evidence-based cancer screening practices in the individual provider's clinical setting 3) Preferences for mechanisms of information dissemination and implementation and 4) Ideas and methods to facilitate evidence-based practices to improve cancer screening in the Latino population. A community-based participatory committee (CBPC) will be formed with 5-7 key informants identified during the interview process.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
assess attitudes and barriers	of community-based primary care providers serving large Latino patient populations toward implementing evidence-based practices for cancer screening and prevention.	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
build the beginning of a Community-Based Participatory Committee	and determine the feasibility of a network of community primary care providers serving large Latino patient populations with the purpose of disseminating, implementing and evaluating evidence-based practice for cancer screening and prevention.	1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Collaborators: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Abraham Aragones, MD, MS, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2013
• Primary Completion (Actual): February 1, 2015
• Study Completion (Actual): February 1, 2015

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 28, 2013
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: March 1, 2013
• First Posted (Estimate): March 4, 2013

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): February 20, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 19, 2015
• Last Verified: February 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Primary Care Providers; Latino Populations; Disseminate Cancer Prevention; semi-structured interviews; 13-031
• Other Study ID Numbers: 13-031