# Understanding the impact on COVID-19 on health behaviors pertaining to cancer prevention, screening, and treatment activities and the mental health and well-being of cancer survivors

> **NIH NIH P30** · OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $154,000

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic in the US and the world has had an impact both physical to psychological on
individuals far beyond that of the acute illness. While resources and attention have rapidly and appropriately
shifted to this current crisis, it is unclear how the virus and necessary community level responses to slow the
spread of the virus have impacted ongoing needs for cancer prevention and screening activities as well as
treatment and support for the particularly vulnerable cancer survivor population. Impacts of the pandemic may
vary from simply delaying screening activities, to changed perceptions regarding cancer risk, to feelings of
being disconnected from needed services, to disruption of treatment and suspension of social supports for
cancer survivors. Our proposed research explores and quantifies the impact of COVID-19 and the necessary
public health response to the crisis on cancer screening and risk behaviors among a random sample of
individuals across our catchment area, as well as the unique and potentially more challenging effects on
cancer survivors. An early understanding of these issues will allow us to be more effective in providing
necessary novel supports to cancer survivors as well as identifying how to maintain screening and risk
reducing behaviors both during the crisis and as we slowly return to a more normal state.
Surveys, using constructs agreed upon by funded collaborating cancer centers and the NCI, assess
psychosocial and behavioral impacts of COVID-19 on two target populations, a stratified probabilistic sample of
households in Oregon and cancer patients and survivors from the Knight Cancer Institute residing in Oregon.
Using an entirely app based data collection platform, the Healthy Oregon Project (HOP), surveys will be
administered in a manner that allows for ease of participation from any location with cellular service, does not
require in person contact, and is highly flexible allowing for the addition of surveys and opportunities for
additional study contact rapidly and inexpensively. Differences in knowledge and attitudes about COVID-19,
mitigation interventions related to the global pandemic, and its impact on mental health and well-being will are
assessed through the application of multiple statistical approaches. Results from this research will inform a
cancer center's understanding of the impacts of COVID-19 on cancer prevention and control and help guide
development of education and communication strategies designed to effectively address specific challenges
that were brought about by both the disease and our necessary social and public health response to the
disease.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10150122
- **Project number:** 3P30CA069533-22S3
- **Recipient organization:** OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** BRIAN J DRUKER
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $154,000
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 1997-08-01 → 2022-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10150122

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10150122, Understanding the impact on COVID-19 on health behaviors pertaining to cancer prevention, screening, and treatment activities and the mental health and well-being of cancer survivors (3P30CA069533-22S3). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10150122. Licensed CC0.

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