Educating Providers About Lung Screening

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Lung Cancer
• Interventions: Behavioral: LuCa + Health Disparity module

• Registration Number: NCT05064046
• Lead Sponsor: Georgetown University

Brief Summary

We are conducting a randomized trial to compare the Health Disparities module to an existing provider module on lung cancer screening to evaluate the impact on primary care providers' knowledge, attitudes, and lung cancer screening referrals of African American and White patients.

Detailed Description

We are conducting a randomized trial of two online, provider-facing education modules regarding lung cancer screening and smoking cessation. We will accrue 70 MedStar primary care providers (PCP). The baseline survey will incorporate items regarding lung cancer screening knowledge, providers' attitudes towards lung cancer screening, lung cancer screening ordering practices and provider characteristics. At the end of the baseline survey, PCPs will be randomly assigned to the LuCa + Health Disparities or LuCa only. PCPs will be asked to complete the intervention and the post-test within 1 week of randomization. The post test will cover knowledge of lung cancer screening, attitudes and opinions toward LCS. To assess PCP lung cancer screening ordering practices, we will review the MedConnect Electronic Health Record (EHR) to compare the two study groups post-randomization on the number of orders made for LCS.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2021-09-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-09-29
• Study First Posted: 2021-10-01
• Study Start: 2021-10-27
• Status Verified: 2021-11
• Primary Completion: 2022-02-28
• Study Completion: 2022-07-27
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-08-03
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 77

Inclusion Criteria

• MedStar provider (attending or resident physician, physician's assistant, or nurse practitioner)
• English speaking
• ability to provide meaningful consent
• ability to provide last two digits of NPI.

Exclusion Criteria

• N/A

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
LuCa + Health Disparity module	LuCa + Health Disparity module	Participants will be asked to complete the Health Disparities module that is an interactive CME/CE online course which offers 0.5 continuing education credit hours. The will also be asked to complete the LuCa course.
LuCa only module	LuCa + Health Disparity module	LuCa is a free interactive CME/CE online course entitled, "Lung Cancer and the Primary Care Provider". For the purpose of this study, participants will be asked to complete session 1 which offers 1.0 continuing education credit hours, including AMA PRA Category 1 credits, AANP, and AAFP Prescribed credits.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of providers with improved mean lung cancer screening knowledge score	1 week	Knowledge about lung cancer screening
Number of providers with improved mean attitudes score	1 week	Attitudes about lung cancer screening

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Rate of lung cancer screening referrals	2 months post-randomization	Lung cancer screening referrals from the electronic health record

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MedStar Health Georgetown University Hospital; 🇺🇸 Washington, District of Columbia, United States