Exploring barriers and enablers to implementation of cancer screening among primary care providers seeing marginalized patients
Description: Screening for breast, cervical and colon cancer can improve patient outcomes including cancer morbidity and mortality. While there are organized screening programs for these cancers in Ontario, screening participation remains suboptimal. Many people who are not up to date with screening experience social marginalization, including immigrants and those with low income. Some family doctors caring for these patients are able to achieve much higher rates of screening that others. However, it is unclear what distinguishes these doctors from others that are not able to achieve high screening rates among their patients. As a result, our study will explore the key barriers and enablers to implementing cancer screening by doctors who see a high number of marginalized patients. We will interview doctors who have both high and low screening rates to explore this issue and will ultimately collaborate with a subset of these clinicians to develop and test an intervention or strategy that may help doctors increase their screening rates.
Amount: CA$34,770
Funding type: fellowship
Funder scheme: Health System Impact Fellowships - Post-Doctoral Central Canada 2 year
Start date: 2021-09-01
End date: 2022-07-31
Investigator: Arlinda Ruco
Institution: Women's College Hospital (Toronto)
Subfield: Oncology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Funded outputs count: 0
Funder award ID: 177499_1
OpenAlex ID: G681482412