Measurement of Cancer-Related Risk Perception in Smokers

Completed

• Conditions: Risk Perception; Focus Group; Survey; Cancer Related-Risks
• Interventions: Behavioral: Interviews; Behavioral: Survey; Behavioral: focus group

• Registration Number: NCT00588211
• Lead Sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to develop an accurate way of measuring people's thoughts about cancer risk. The researchers at the Queens Hospital Center, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Adelphi University are working together to design a new measure. Findings from this study will help us find new ways to help people avoid cancer.

Detailed Description

The goal of the study is to develop and provide initial evidence for the reliability and validity of a measure of cancer-related risk perception. As such, the primary outcomes of the study will be initial construct validity (convergent validity and discriminant validity) of the proposed scale as evidenced by correlations of this test with other tests that vary in the degree of association to the proposed construct of cancer-related risk perception. It is anticipated that the cancer-related risk perception scale will correlate most highly (.50-.60) with measures of tobacco and environmental risk exposures, readiness to quit smoking, and family cancer history.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2001-09
• Study First Submitted: 2007-12-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-12-24
• Study First Posted: 2008-01-08
• Status Verified: 2022-09
• Primary Completion: 2022-09-13
• Study Completion: 2022-09-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-09-14
• Last Update Posted: 2022-09-16

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1514

Inclusion Criteria

• Subject must be >= to 18 years of age
• For recruitment at Adelphi University: Speak English
• For recruitment at Queens Hospital Center: Speak English
• For recruitment at Queens Hospital Center: Must be a Queens Hospital Center Patient

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Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who have a history of colorectal cancer at the Queens Hospital Center
• Patients who cannot give informed consent

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
1	Interviews	We will recruit fifteen New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) clinic patients who report current tobacco use.
3	Survey	Third, we will survey 200 student participants from Adelphi University.
4	Survey	Queens Hospital Center with 800 patients.
2	focus group	Second, we will recruit thirty dental clinic smokers (10 per day for 3 days) from the NYUCD waiting room.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Develop a comprehensive "blueprint," or description of the cancer-related risk perception construct; to use it to generate a cancer-related risk perception item pool; conduct an analysis of the generated items	3 years

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
to establish initial evidence for scale reliability and validity	3 years

Trial Locations

Locations (4)

Queens Hospital Center; 🇺🇸 Jamaica, New York, United States

New York University, College of Dentistry; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Adelphi University; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 New York, New York, United States