Using Middle School Science Teachers to Address Health Disparities
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 1,812
- 试验地点
- 5
- 主要终点
- Change in students' intention to engage in health-promoting behaviors following the completion of the curriculum.
研究概览
简要总结
The CARES4You study is testing a middle school science curriculum designed to teach students about cancer risk and prevention. The lessons are taught by regular science teachers during class time and are aligned with national science education standards. The curriculum includes six units (14 lessons) that help students learn about cancer, understand how lifestyle and environmental factors influence risk, and think about ways to make healthy choices.
The study will take place in 10 public middle schools in New York City. Some schools will begin using the CARES4You curriculum right away, while others will continue with their usual science lessons and receive the program later. Researchers will compare the two groups of schools.
The main goal of the study is to see whether the curriculum increases students' intentions to engage in healthy behaviors that may reduce cancer risk. The study will also examine whether students talk more with their caregivers about cancer risk and prevention after participating in the program. Caregivers may also report on some health behaviors in the household.
If the program is effective, CARES4You could provide schools with a practical and sustainable way to teach cancer prevention and promote healthy behaviors among adolescents and their families.
详细描述
The investigators will evaluate whether the CARES4You intervention modifies health-promoting behavior intentions among middle school students in New York City.
Participants in the control arm will receive the exact same 5-week educational curriculum as those in the intervention arm.
Participants will:
- Be assigned to either the control group or the study group; both will receive the same cancer educational curriculum over 5 weeks.
- Receive weekly classroom lessons and labs over 5 weeks.
- Students will complete a survey before and after the administration of the curriculum intervention. These questionnaires evaluate students' change in knowledge related to the curriculum, and questions about their cancer risk behaviors, and communication styles at home.
- Caregivers of students in the intervention schools only will complete a survey at one time point and receive a $40 electronic gift card for completing the survey at the end of the curriculum implementation phase.
- Instructors will complete a training program evaluation and a post-curriculum evaluation to assess the impact of the curriculum on their students.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Non Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Adolescents:
- •Age 10-13
- •Attends a NYC Public Middle School
- •Resides in one of the study's four target PPA's
- •Parents/Caregivers:
- •18 years of age or older
- •Has at least one child registered for middle school in NYC that resides with them
- •Resides in one of the study's four target PPA's
- •Able to provide informed consent
排除标准
- •Adolescents: Students who do not attend one of the participating NYC Public Middle Schools
- •Parents/Caregivers: Caregivers who do not have a child that attends one of the participating NYC Public Middle Schools
结局指标
主要结局
Change in students' intention to engage in health-promoting behaviors following the completion of the curriculum.
时间窗: Baseline, End of Study (6 weeks)
Intent to engage in health-promoting behaviors will be assessed by an adapted nine-item instrument. The response scale for each question item ranges from 0 (does not apply to me) to 3 (very likely) with a sum score ranging from 0 to 27. Higher scores represent a greater intention to follow health-promoting behaviors.
次要结局
- Number of student participants and caregiver participants who initiate cancer risk communication in the household.(End of Study (6 weeks))