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.
This administrative supplement allows currently funded NCI extramural investigators to examine the effects of digital tools/interventions on patient-provider communication and/or how patient-provider communication influences the relationships between digital tools/interventions and cancer-related outcomes of interest to the parent study. Applicants may propose to supplement parent awards that are focused on the development, testing, or delivery of digital health tools/interventions or to explore digital health-related barriers or opportunities in their patient-provider communication focused research.
Deadline: April 21, 2023
NOT-CA-23-041
- Only current awardees of an active NCI-funded R01, R37, R21, P01, P20, P30, P50, U01, UH3, U19, or U54 are eligible to apply.
- PDs/PIs must hold an active award supported through NCI with sufficient time (minimum 1 year) left to complete the proposed project after the supplement has been awarded within the existing project period.
- The proposed project must be within the scope of the parent award and be a logical extension of the parent award aims.
- Requests for no-cost extensions on the parent grant to accommodate a supplement will not be permitted.
- If an applicant anticipates a balance of 50% or more of the current total costs for the parent grant, please contact the scientific research contact prior to submitting an application.
- Only one supplement application per parent award will be accepted for consideration. For supplements to parent awards that include multiple PDs/PIs, the supplement may be requested by any or all of the PDs/PIs (in accordance with the existing leadership plan) and submitted by the awardee institution of the parent award.