Back to Annual Meeting Page		American Public Health Association 133rd Annual Meeting & Exposition December 10-14, 2005 Philadelphia, PA

Abstract #104783

Robin Cline Vanderpool, MPH, CHES, University of Kentucky, Mid-South Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute, 2365 Harrodsburg Road, Suite A230, Lexington, KY 40504, 859-219-9063, robin@cis.uky.edu and Linda Brafford Squiers, PhD>, Cancer Information Service, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd., Rockville, MD 20852.

The National Cancer Institute's Cancer Information Service is a national information and education network consisting of an Information Service, a Partnership Program, and a Research Program. The CIS has been providing service to the public since 1976. The Information Service can be accessed by telephone (1-800-4-CANCER), instant messaging (LiveHelp), email, and written response. The CIS also provides information through a Publications Ordering Service, by recorded information, and through the NCI's National Smoking Cessation Line. The CIS Research Program tests innovations in health communication that can enhance and strengthen the services CIS provides to the public. This Research Program is unique in that it tests health communication interventions within an existing information infrastructure that directly serves cancer patients, their friends and family members, health professionals, the media, and the general public. In the past five years, CIS has participated in 50 different studies focusing on a variety of cancer communication areas, many involving innovative health communication technologies. CIS staff have played many different roles such as assisting researchers in grant writing and study design, providing recruitment or referral to studies, delivering health communication messages and interventions, administering telephone questionnaires, tracking and analyzing data, and preparing publications and presentations. Results from appropriate studies are directly integrated into service delivery. The CIS Research Program is guided by a National CIS Research Agenda. The Agenda will be described as well how health communication researchers can partner with the CIS on collaborative health communication investigations.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the three major programs comprising NCI’s Cancer Information Service (CIS).
• Describe the history of the CIS Research Program and types of health communication research studies in which the CIS has participated.
• Describe various roles the CIS has played in health communication research studies.
• Describe the CIS National Research Agenda and how health communication researchers can collaborate with the CIS.

Keywords: Cancer, Research

Related Web page: cis.nci.nih.gov/research/research.html

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

I wish to disclose that I have NO financial interests or other relationship with the manufactures of commercial products, suppliers of commercial services or commercial supporters.