Increasing Breast and Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Community

NOT YET RECRUITING

NCT07748377

NA

Sponsor: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Summary

The goal of the proposed study is to conduct a pilot randomized controlled trial (RCT) of Chi gung, a community-based intervention using peer education and tailored navigation to simultaneously improve colorectal (CRC) and breast cancer (BC) screening rates.

Official title: A Pilot Trial of a Community-Based Strategy to Improve Colorectal and Breast Cancer Screening

Key Details

Gender

FEMALE

Age Range

45 Years - 75 Years

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Enrollment

80

Start Date

2026-09

Completion Date

2029-03

Last Updated

2026-08-05

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Conditions

Colorectal Neoplasms Breast Neoplasms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

The intervention consists of a A) 90-minute group education session led by a community health worker (CHW) that 1) addresses CRC and BC incidence, mortality, development, symptoms, and screening tests, in addition to shared beliefs and common obstacles to CRC and BC screening, 2) involves experiential education (e.g., demonstrations of stool based testing and colonoscopy bowel preparation), 3) question and answer session, and 4) take-home materials summarizing CRC and BC screening information and local resources; and B) peer navigation assistance by telephone to address ongoing obstacles to CRC and BC screening completion, conducted over a 6 month period.

BEHAVIORAL

Chi gung: Stay Well, Live Well

The attention control arm will receive a A) time-matched (90-minute) general health didactic on risk factors for cancer and take-home materials on concepts discussed, and B) telephone calls to address concepts covered in the presentation (number of calls will be based on the average frequency of peer navigation calls in the intervention arm).