Increasing Recruitment of Underrepresented Cancer Survivors With Awareness Enhancing Interventions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- University of Tennessee
- Enrollment
- 4,451
- Locations
- 4
- Primary Endpoint
- Recruitment Yield
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine if increasing awareness and, thus, enhancing positive attitudes about research, prior to recruitment attempts, will increase participation in cancer clinical research among African American (AA) cancer survivors so that recruitment efforts can focus on the most optimal and cost- effective approaches
Detailed Description
In this project, 2000 AA potential AMPLIFI project participants will be randomized to the awareness-enhancing intervention (AWEI) or to the comparison condition in which they do not receive AWEI intervention but only the Adapting Multiple Behavior Interventions that Effectively Improve Cancer Survivor Health (AMPLIFI) basic recruitment strategy (No AWEI). Randomization for the AWEI Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) will occur soon after the AMPLIFI recruitment letter is sent, and AWEI interventions will be delivered over a two-week period between the AMPLIFI recruitment invitation letter and the AMPLIFI recruitment call. Survivors randomized to AWEI intervention will be exposed to 8 different combinations of the AWEI components according to different types of strategies and type of information reflecting the survivor voice or not. Subsequent to the AMPLIFI recruitment call, a 20% random sample of cancer survivors will be surveyed over the phone to assess intervention fidelity.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Other
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 50 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •African American/Black
- •adults (age ≥50 years old)
- •diagnosed with obesity/physical activity associated cancers that have a 70% or greater 5-year relative cancer-free survival rate multiple myeloma, localized kidney cancer and loco- regional cancers of the colorectum, female breast, prostate, endometrium, and ovary).
- •1-5 years post diagnosis
- •reside in an area with wireless coverage
- •In the AMPLIFI recruitment pool
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Recruitment Yield
Time Frame: within 3 months of receiving intervention
measured by the proportion of targeted survivors who, at the time of the recruitment call, after the screening process is complete, decide to participate in AMPLIFI.
Secondary Outcomes
No secondary outcomes reported
Investigators
MICHELLE Y MARTIN
Director: Center for Innovation in Health Equity Research
University of Tennessee