Using Health Information Technology to Improve Health Behaviors and Promote Cardiovascular Health Among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

Using Health Information Technology to Improve Health Behaviors and Promote Cardiovascular Health Among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors

Health information technology (HIT) has the potential to improve the quality, efficiency, consistency, and availability of cancer survivor care. PREVENT is a novel HIT tool designed by our team for adolescents (12-19 years). PREVENT aggregates and displays the American Heart Association's (AHA) Life Simple 7 cardiovascular health (CVH) risk factors and provides tailored, evidence-based, behavior change recommendations inclusive of community resources that are delivered to overweight/obese adolescents at the point-of-care to improve CVH. The investigators seek to expand this tool for patients beyond 19 years of age to increase this tool's reach to the entire adolescent and young adult (AYA) age range and then evaluate its effectiveness among AYA cancer survivors.

Patient eligibility criteria

• Aged 20-39 years
• Prior diagnosis of pediatric cancer (diagnosed <21 years of age).
• Not receiving active therapy for their cancer
• Receiving care from the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology staff and physicians at St. Louis Children's Hospital, the St. Louis Children's Specialty Care Center, Siteman Cancer Center's Lifelong Outcomes Clinic at Siteman South County
• At risk for poor CVH (BMI ≥ 25 kg/m^2)
• Ability to understand and willingness to sign an IRB approved written informed consent document (or that of legally authorized representative, if applicable).

Provider eligibility criteria.

-All providers and clinic staff (physicians, nurses, clinic staff, clinic research associates) in the Pediatric Hematology/Oncology program at St. Louis Children's Hospital and the CSCC or in the Siteman Cancer Center's Lifelong Outcomes Clinic at Siteman South County are eligible to participate.