Clinical Trial Protocol for a Randomized Trial of Community Health Worker-led Decision Coaching to Promote Shared Decision-making on Prostate Cancer Screening Among Black Male Patients and Their Providers

Danil V Makarov; Shannon Ciprut; Natalia Martinez-Lopez; Angela Fagerlin; Jerry Thomas; Michele Shedlin; Heather T Gold; Huilin Li; Sandeep Bhat; Rueben Warren; Peter Ubel; Joseph E Ravenell

doi:10.1016/j.euf.2021.08.001

Clinical Trial Protocol for a Randomized Trial of Community Health Worker-led Decision Coaching to Promote Shared Decision-making on Prostate Cancer Screening Among Black Male Patients and Their Providers

Eur Urol Focus. 2021 Sep;7(5):909-912. doi: 10.1016/j.euf.2021.08.001. Epub 2021 Aug 21.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY, USA; Department of Urology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA. Electronic address: danil.makarov@nyulangone.org.
² VA New York Harbor Healthcare System, New York, NY, USA; Department of Urology, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA; Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
³ Department of Population Health, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA.
⁴ Department of Population Health Sciences, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
⁵ NYU College of Nursing, New York, NY, USA.
⁶ Sunset Park Health Council, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL, USA.
⁸ The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Abstract

We propose a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a community health worker-led decision-coaching program to facilitate shared decision-making for prostate cancer screening decisions by Black men at a primary care federally qualified health center.

Publication types

Clinical Trial Protocol
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Community Health Workers
Early Detection of Cancer
Humans
Male
Mentoring*
Prostate-Specific Antigen
Prostatic Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Prostatic Neoplasms* / prevention & control
Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic

Substances

Prostate-Specific Antigen

Grants and funding

R01 MD012243/MD/NIMHD NIH HHS/United States