Clinical trial · Interventional
Designing and Evaluating Multi-level Implementation Strategies to Address Alcohol Use Within Oncology Care
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
To assess the potential effects of our multi-level implementation strategies for increasing SBIRT for alcohol use among cancer patients and to refine our methods, the investigators are conducting a pilot-trial with 4 clinics and will be doing interviews with patients and clinicians. The investigators will use a pragmatic, randomized clinical trial design, with 2 clinics randomized to our multi-level implementation strategies and 2 clinics randomized to usual care (prescreening assessment of alcohol use and patient information about alcohol use). Clinicians will include physicians as well as nurses and nurse practitioners who complete patient visits. Patients will include those diagnosed with cancer who have completed the alcohol use prescreening at a visit within the previous 30 days; the investigators will not deliver implementation strategies until at least 7 days following the initial prescreening given the informatics need to deliver messages to eligible patients at the point of care. Patients in the usual care arm will receive the prescreening and information about alcohol use and cancer outcomes and who to contact for further assessment integrated into their "After Visit Summary"; clinicians in the usual care sites will receive information about alcohol as a determinant of cancer outcomes and who to contact for referrals for screening at the outset of the pilot trial. Each patient who completes the subsequent clinic visit where the patient and clinician directed nudges are delivered (in the multi-level intervention arm) or not (usual care) will be tracked for 6 months to determine if SBIRT for alcohol use was completed (the primary outcome variable). Lastly, 10 patients and 10 clinicians will be invited to complete key informant interviews to provide feedback about their experiences with the implementation strategies.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol Misuse | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Alcohol Misuse Treatment | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-level Implementation Strategy | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- The Usual Care Arm
- description
- Patients who are assessed and treated by clinicians at sites randomized to usual care will receive the alcohol use prescreening by the Medical Assistant and will receive information about the adverse effects of alcohol and resources available for further evaluation through the Penn health system during their subsequent encounters with clinicians within usual care sites. This information will be provided on the After Visit Summary and will include contact information for the Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy, where SBIRT for alcohol use can be obtained (Note: We will use a generic term for the referral such as Cancer Support Services to reduce stigma). No additional implementation strategies will be provided. No changes will be made to the EMR for clinicians within usual care sites (i.e., no Best Practice Alert).
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- The Multi-level Implementation Strategy Arm:
- description
- Patients assessed and treated by clinicians at sites randomized to our multi-level implementation arm will receive the alcohol use prescreening by the Medical Assistant and will receive the patient-directed nudge developed prior to study launch. The clinician who they see for their subsequent appointments will receive the clinician nudge also developed prior to study launch.
- interventionNames
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Over age 18 and diagnosed with cancer * Receiving care at one of our pilot study sites Exclusion Criteria: * None
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