Developing an eLearning Program in Helping Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Cancer Care Providers During Tobacco Use Counselling

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Health Care Provider
• Interventions: Other: Internet-Based Intervention; Other: Meeting; Other: Survey Administration

• Registration Number: NCT03539991
• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Brief Summary

This trial aims to develop an electronic learning (eLearning) program and mobile tool for Spanish and Portuguese speaking cancer care providers to use in tobacco counseling of their patients. This study may provide information for the design and implementation of tobacco cessation training programs directed to this group of professionals in low- and middle-income countries for the Latin American region.

Detailed Description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To develop and test the feasibility of an eLearning program on brief tobacco counseling specifically designed for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking cancer care providers.

II. To linguistically/culturally tailor and test a mobile tool designed to assist in providing effective tobacco counseling and treatment.

OUTLINE:

Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month.

After completion of study, participants are followed up at 3 and 6 months.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-04-18
• Study First Submitted: 2018-05-16
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-05-25
• Study First Posted: 2018-05-30
• Primary Completion: 2021-08-17
• Study Completion: 2021-08-17
• Status Verified: 2021-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-09-03
• Last Update Posted: 2021-09-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 89

Inclusion Criteria

• Be a cancer care provider (CCP) working at one of the above cancer centers
• Have direct contact with cancer patients
• Have access to the internet during the 4-hour online course and at least once per month to participate in post-training virtual meetings, discussion board postings, email, and periodic audio chat conferences
• Have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone (iPhone or Android) with built-in camera and microphone
• Have basic proficiency in the use of a computer, including word processing and email
• Commit to the STOP Program by completing the online course and sharing lessons learned with other CCPs at the monthly virtual meetings that will take place during the 6 months following course completion

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Supportive care (online course, virtual meeting)	Survey Administration	Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month.
Supportive care (online course, virtual meeting)	Meeting	Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month.
Supportive care (online course, virtual meeting)	Internet-Based Intervention	Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Recruitment and retention rates	Up to 6 months	Will be used as key parameters for assessing the feasibility of the eLearning program. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test will be used to compare scores obtained in the pre- and post-tests of the eLearning program. Effect sizes will be computed as the absolute value of the difference between the post-test (T2, T3, and T4) and pre-test (T1) scores divided by the mean of the standard deviations for each.
Linguistically/culturally tailored mobile tool	Up to 6 months	Computing the System Usability Scale (SUS) scores in the final assessment will allow our research team to analyze cancer care provider's (CCPs) experience of using the tool. A descriptive analysis to compute the SUS score will be performed and later converted to percentile ranks. A percentile rank of 75% will indicate that the tool has high perceived usability. All statistical analyses will be performed using SPSS Statistics version 23 (International Business Machines Corporation).

Trial Locations

Locations (3)

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas; 🇵🇪 Lima, Peru

Hosptial de Cancer de Barretos; 🇧🇷 Barretos, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Instituto Nacional De Cancerologia; 🇨🇴 Bogota, Colombia