Training clinic leaders to improve how doctors talk about cancer prevention for children
IMPACT Project 3 – Engaging clinical champions to improve clinical communication and health care use in healthcare systems
This program trains clinical champions to teach primary care teams to give clearer, stronger recommendations about cancer-preventing care for children and adolescents.
Quick facts
| Grant type | P01 program project |
|---|---|
| Study type | NIH-funded research |
| Funding institution | Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill NIH-funded |
| Lab location | 1 site (Chapel Hill, United States) |
| Project ID | NIH-11184372 on NIH RePORTER |
What this research studies
If you are a parent of a child who gets primary care, this project works inside health systems to help clinicians talk more effectively about cancer-preventing services. The team uses a one-hour Announcement Approach Training (AAT) workshop that physician facilitators normally deliver, and they will adapt the program so clinics can train their own clinical champions to deliver AAT. Researchers will interview selected champions across six partner health systems to learn what helps or hinders local delivery, then compare champion-delivered AAT to traditional facilitator-delivered AAT to see which reaches more families and changes care use. The focus is on practical changes in how clinicians recommend services to children and adolescents.
Who could benefit from this research
Good fit: Ideal candidates are children and adolescents (and their parents/caregivers) who receive care in participating pediatric or family medicine clinics within the partner health systems.
Not a fit: Adults not receiving pediatric or adolescent primary care, patients seen outside the participating health systems, or those whose clinicians do not adopt the training are unlikely to benefit directly.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, this could mean your child's doctor gives more consistent, clear recommendations for cancer-preventing services, increasing the chance your child receives recommended vaccines and screenings.
How similar studies have performed: Previous studies of Announcement Approach Training have improved clinician recommendations and uptake of preventive services, but training systems' own clinical champions to scale the approach is a newer model with less prior testing.
Where this research is happening
Chapel Hill, United States
- Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill — Chapel Hill, United States (Active)
Researchers
- Principal investigator: Gilkey, Melissa B — Univ of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- Study coordinator: Gilkey, Melissa B
About this research
- This is an active NIH-funded research project — typically early-stage science, not a clinical trial accepting patient enrollment.
- Some NIH-funded labs run parallel clinical studies or seek volunteers for related work. To check, contact the principal investigator or institution listed above.
- For full project details, budget, and progress reports, visit the official NIH RePORTER page below.