Choices: Increasing Access of Latinas Into Breast Cancer Clinical Trials
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 77
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Attitudes towards clinical trials
研究概览
简要总结
"Increasing Access of Latinas into Breast Cancer Clinical Trials" aims to develop and pilot test a multi-communications approach - using a culturally relevant computer video, a tailored booklet and a patient navigator (PN) - to empower Latinas to make informed decisions about breast cancer clinical trials (BCCTs). Latinos represent 15% of the U.S. population but only 5.6% of participants in National Cancer Institute (NCI) treatment clinical trials, resulting in disparities in cancer outcomes and jeopardizing the generalizability of trial findings. In response, this study will develop and evaluate communication and health-system-change strategies to facilitate Latinas' access to BCCTs at the Cancer Therapy and Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (CTRC-UTHSCSA). The CTRC-UTHSCSA, an NCI-designated Cancer Center located in South Texas, serves a culturally and ethnically diverse population that historically has low participation in clinical trials, especially among those with breast cancer, the No. 1 cancer killer of Latinas.
详细描述
This study features a cohort design with random assignment of 112 Latina breast cancer patients from the CTRC to an intervention (56) or usual care control group (56). The intervention group will receive three components: 1) a culturally sensitive and individually tailored, 30-minute computer-based BCCT educational video; 2) a bilingual, low literacy booklet that encourages patients to communicate with family and friends; and 3) support from a patient navigator. The usual care control group will receive usual care breast cancer clinical trial information materials offered by the CTRC to its eligible patients. The intervention is based in two proven theories - Stages of Change and Social Cognitive Theory - and will feature basic components of individual empowerment, including knowledge, attitudes, skills and self-efficacy beliefs and expectations.
The study has three main phases: Phase 1: Formative Research; Phase 2: Intervention; and Phase 3: Evaluation.
Purpose:
To empower Latinas to make informed decisions about breast cancer clinical trials (BCCTs) by enhancing their knowledge, attitudes, skills and self-efficacy required to support discussion of CT as a treatment option with doctors and family members.
Specific Objectives:
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Double (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •English and Spanish speaking Latinas diagnosed with breast cancer who: attend the CTRC breast clinic and/or other CTRC clinics, have not had their initial doctor consultation to discuss treatment options, have not participated in a clinical trial before, and are eligible to participate in one of the Phase III, Phase IV or selective Phase II breast cancer clinical trials (BCCT) open at the CTRC at the time of diagnosis.
排除标准
- •Non-Hispanic women
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
The intervention group will receive three components: 1) a culturally sensitive, individually tailored, 30-minute computer-based BCCT video; 2) a bilingual, low-literacy booklet aimed at encouraging patients to communicate with family and friends and 3) assistance from a patient navigator.
干预措施: Intervention (Behavioral)
Usual Care
The usual care control group will receive the usual care breast cancer clinical trial information materials offered by the CTRC to their eligible patients.
结局指标
主要结局
Attitudes towards clinical trials
时间窗: Baseline and post intervention survey within 3 months from baseline
Eight-item scale measuring attitudes towards clinical trials (staging questions)
Self-efficacy
时间窗: Baseline and post intervention survey within 3 months from baseline
14-item scale measuring self-efficacy regarding seeking information about clinical trials, communication with doctors, family members and friends, confidence in the system, decision making and expectations if enrolled in a clinical trial.
Enrollment in a Clinical Trial
时间窗: within 6 months from baseline
Participants' medical records will be reviewed to determine enrollment in a CT
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Amelie Ramirez
Chair, ad interim, and Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio