Feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary impact of a text messaging intervention to increase the uptake of lung cancer screening among Latinos: single-arm pilot study
Jeffrey W. Ramos-Santiago, Rafael H. Orfin, Mary Jo Evans, Maria Delgado Sutton, Francisca Barria López, Arlette Chávez-Iñiguez, Gabriella Alvarez, Scott McIntosh, David H. Adler, Beau W. Abar, Dongmei Li, Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza, Lisa Carter-Bawa, M. Patricia Rivera, Ana Paula Cupertino, Francisco Cartujano-Barrera · 2026
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Jeffrey W. Ramos-Santiago leads a large team piloting in 2026 a text messaging program, A todo pulmón, meant to raise lung cancer screening among Latino adults in the United States. Latinos screen at particularly low rates despite strong interest when access improves, and they use texting heavily. Forty eligible adults who had missed annual screening received the bilingual program, built with a community advisory board, and answered surveys at the start and at three months.
Most participants had never heard of lung cancer screening, and nearly three quarters did not know they qualified. Follow-up was completed by thirty-five people. Verified screening reached twenty-five percent by three months, and a third completed shared decision-making talks. The team judges the approach feasible and acceptable for a fuller trial.
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| CREATOR | Jeffrey W. Ramos-Santiago, Rafael H. Orfin, Mary Jo Evans, Maria Delgado Sutton, Francisca Barria López, Arlette Chávez-Iñiguez, Gabriella Alvarez, Scott McIntosh, David H. Adler, Beau W. Abar, Dongmei Li, Alejandra Hurtado-de-Mendoza, Lisa Carter-Bawa, M. Patricia Rivera, Ana Paula Cupertino, Francisco Cartujano-Barrera |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32522 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |