Telephone-Based Cancer Education With or Without Telephone-Based Counseling in Young Participants
- Conditions
- Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
- Registration Number
- NCT00459238
- Lead Sponsor
- Georgetown University
- Brief Summary
RATIONALE: Telephone-based cancer education and counseling may help participants learn about ways of preventing cancer and choose a lifestyle that will help them stay healthy as they grow older.
PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying telephone-based cancer education and telephone-based counseling to see how well they work compared with telephone-based cancer education alone in young participants.
- Detailed Description
OBJECTIVES:
Primary
* Compare the efficacy of telephone-based cancer education with vs without counseling in younger participants.
Secondary
* Determine the mechanisms by which education with counseling may impact cancer-relevant cognitive and behavioral outcomes.
* Identify teens who may be most and least likely to benefit from education with counseling.
OUTLINE: This is a pilot, controlled, randomized study. Participants are stratified according to age (13-14 years vs 15 years vs 16 years vs 17 years vs 18-21 years), gender, race (white vs black vs other), and health status (chronic disease vs no chronic disease). Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 education arms.
* Arm I: Participants undergo cancer education sessions via telephone over 45 minutes once a week for 8 weeks.
* Arm II: Participants under cancer education sessions as in arm I and counseling techniques during the same telephone sessions.
In both arms, participants receive an intervention kit by mail before the first telephone call. The intervention kit includes age-appropriate self-help materials.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 300 participants will be accrued for this study.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 104
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Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- SINGLE_GROUP
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Knowledge 6 months Tobacco use intentions and behavior 6 months Screening intentions 6 months Health history taking 3 months Nutrition 6 months Multiple risk factor index 6 months Physical activity 6 months Perceived benefits 6 months Perceived barriers 6 months Self-efficacy 6 months Alcohol use intentions and behavior 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center
🇺🇸Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States