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Standardizing Measurement of Social and Behavioral Dimensions of Cancer Prevention and Control to Enhance Outreach and Engagement in NCI-Designated Cancer Centers

In recent years, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has focused on the impact that NCI-designated cancer centers have in reducing the cancer burden in their defined catchment areas. In 2016, NCI funded 15 cancer center support grant supplements to support cancer centers' abilities to better define and describe their catchment areas and needs to enhance cancer prevention and control. As part of this initiative, a working group developed standardized measures to capture demographic, social, knowledge, attitude, and behavioral factors to be included in the surveys fielded by all 15 cancer centers. In this commentary, we describe the process of selecting domains for measurement, the core measures used, and advantages of standardizing how social and behavioral factors are assessed.