Clinical trial NCT00588211: Measurement of Cancer-Related Risk Perception in Smokers
Official title: Measurement of Cancer-Related Risk Perception in Smokers
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Cancer Related-Risks
Risk Perception
Survey
Focus Group
Keywords: Cancer related-Risks
Risk Perception
Survey
Focus Group
Smoking cessation
tobacco
Lead sponsor: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
name: Adelphi University
name: Queen's Hospital Center
First posted: 2008-01-08
Enrollment: 1514
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: OTHER
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: * clinic patients Queens Hospital Center
* students participants from Adelphi University

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.

Eligibility criteria: 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

Exclusion Criteria:

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

Primary outcomes:
measure: 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
timeFrame: 3 years
Secondary outcomes:
measure: to establish initial evidence for scale reliability and validity
timeFrame: 3 years
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Jamaica
country: United States
facility: Queens Hospital Center
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: New York University, College of Dentistry
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
state: New York
city: New York
country: United States
facility: Adelphi University
state: New York
Study officials:
affiliation: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
name: Jennifer L Hay, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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