Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Administrative supplements to examine the effects of digital tools and interventions on patient-provider communication across the cancer control continuum

Organization
NCI
Type
NIH NOSI
Application Due Date
04-22-2023
Brief Description

The goal of this Notice of Special interest (NOSI) from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) is to encourage currently funded NCI extramural investigators to apply for administrative supplements to better understand the effects of digital health tools and interventions on patient-provider communication across the cancer control continuum, with the aim of developing an evidence base to inform future development, modification, and delivery of digital tools/interventions for effective cancer prevention and control. 

This administrative supplement would provide  currently funded NCI extramural investigators with funding for one year to analyze existing data collected under the parent grant related to (1) the effects of digital health tools/interventions on patient-provider communication and (2) how patient-provider communication influences the relationships between digital health tools/interventions and cancer prevention and control outcomes assessed in the parent grant. Knowledge gained from this administrative supplement is intended to inform future development, modification, and delivery of digital tools/interventions to improve cancer outcomes, including patient safety and care quality, healthy behavior, health equity, and health outcomes.

For this Notice, digital health refers to a wide range of tools and technologies that can be used to support cancer prevention and control, including online and web-based interventions, mobile health, wearables, voice assistants and virtual agents, electronic health records, patient portals, and telehealth, as well as the infrastructure that enables integration, and analysis, and interpretation of data from these technologies. Digital tools/interventions may be intended for clinical, public health, home, or community settings and span the cancer control continuum. Healthcare providers are broadly defined as any health professionals providing cancer-related care; examples include, but are not limited to, physicians, physician assistants, registered nurses, pharmacists, clinical social workers, behavioral health care providers, and patient navigators. Patient-provider communication includes the frequency and quality of communication and associated aspects of the patient-provider relationship, such as trust, satisfaction, patient-centeredness, rapport, language accessibility, affective processes, information processing, shared decision-making, stigma, and empowerment. The cancer control continuum describes the various stages of cancer care including cancer etiology, prevention, screening, detection, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and end of life.