Patient Activation To Increase Colon Cancer Screening

描述（由申请人提供）：提出了一个5年计划，包括职业培训和研究项目，以发展技能，实现成为癌症预防和控制的独立研究人员的目标。拟议的计划包括正式的课程和研讨会，重点是健康宣传和与癌症预防和控制有关的心理社会问题。此外，还包括研讨会，以巩固申请人对先进研究方法和数据分析的理解，并解决负责任的研究行为。重要的是，这个5年计划还包括与申请人的主要和次要导师的定期互动。俄亥俄州州立大学综合癌症中心和公共卫生学院提供了一个支持癌症预防和控制研究的环境。拟议的研究项目“患者激活以增加结肠癌筛查”是独一无二的，因为它专注于患者层面，通过“患者激活”来提高结直肠癌（CRC）筛查率。个体干预采用随机对照试验的形式，以测试患者沟通技能培训与CRC和CRC筛查信息和障碍咨询相结合以提高筛查率的有效性。这项研究将在哥伦布社区健康中心进行，该中心为种族和民族多样化以及贫困的社区提供服务。这项拟议的研究具有深远的潜力，因为如果被证明是有效的，这种CRC筛查计划可以与其他拥有类似社区卫生中心的城市分享，以改善其医疗服务不足的人群中的CRC筛查。概述的培训计划沿着的机会进行指导研究，为这个癌症预防，控制和人口科学职业发展奖（K07）将提供一个很好的机会，以增加申请人的知识和研究技能，以达到成为一个生产力，独立的学术研究人员在癌症预防和控制的目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A 5-year plan is proposed that consists of career training and a research project to develop skills toward reaching the goal of becoming an independent researcher in cancer prevention and control. The proposed plan includes formal coursework and seminars focusing on health communications and the psychosocial issues associated with cancer prevention and control. In addition, seminars are included to solidify the applicant's understanding of advanced research methodology and data analyses, and addressing the responsible conduct of research. Importantly, this 5-year plan also includes regular interaction with the applicant's primary and secondary mentors. The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center and School of Public Health provides an environment that supports cancer prevention and control research. The proposed research project, "Patient Activation To Increase Colon Cancer Screening", is unique because it focuses at the patient level to improve colorectal cancer (CRC) screening rates by "patient activation". The individual intervention is in the format of a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of patient communication skills training coupled with CRC and CRC screening information and barriers counseling to improve screening rates. This research will be conducted in a Columbus Neighborhood Health Center that serves neighborhoods that are diverse in race and ethnicity, and poor. This proposed research has far reaching potential, because if shown to be effective, this CRC screening program can be shared with other cities that have similar Neighborhood Health Centers to improve CRC screening among their medically underserved populations. The outlined training program along with the opportunity to conduct mentored research for this Cancer Prevention, Control and Population Sciences Career Development Award (K07) will provide an excellent opportunity to augment the applicant's knowledge and research skills to reach the goal of becoming a productive, independent academic researcher in cancer prevention and control.