Developing and Testing a Mobile Health Intervention to Promote Sun Protection Behaviors and Skin Examination Among Hispanics
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 114
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Sun protection behavior by self-report
研究概览
简要总结
Hypothesis: More than 80% of the participants (n=40) will complete the intervention at three month (intervention completion) and the six month follow-up (retention rate as feasibility). More than 70% of the participants will report high overall study satisfaction (acceptability) with the intervention and study.
This pre-pilot will inform intervention and procedural refinements for the pilot.
Hypothesis: Participants who receive the intervention (n=57) will report more skin cancer-related preventive behaviors (e.g., mean of summed score of sun protection behaviors such as use of sunscreen, etc.) at three month and six month follow-up compared to those in the control condition (n=57, who will receive general information about physical activity and nutrition).
详细描述
Aim 1: The investigator will conduct individual interviews among key stakeholders such as health care providers and community leaders to plan a mobile skin cancer intervention among Hispanics. Data will be collected from individual interviews (n=10-12) among key stakeholders and triangulated with data from a funded pilot grant (focus groups and surveys with Hispanic community members) to gather information regarding Hispanics perceptions and behaviors related to skin cancer and suggestions for a WhatsApp intervention.
Aim 2: Employing a user-centered approach to develop a WhatsApp intervention to promote skin cancer risk-reduction behaviors among Hispanics and encourage engagement in the intervention. Use an iterative qualitative (focus groups with Hispanics, n=32; individual interviews with key stakeholders e.g., health care providers and community leaders, n=10-12) process to incorporate input from Hispanics and relevant stakeholders to develop a mobile WhatsApp intervention that is theory- and culturally-guided.
Aim 3: The investigators will evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of this mobile intervention in a single-arm pre-, post-test pilot study among at-risk Hispanics.
Aim 4: Refine the intervention and conduct a pilot RCT (n = 114) using this mobile program among Hispanics at risk for skin cancer and assess the preliminary effects of the mobile intervention at 3-month (intervention completion) and 6-month follow-ups.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 100 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Self-report as Hispanics
- •18 years or older
- •No personal history of skin cancer
- •Report more than one skin cancer risk factor
- •Do not engage in sufficient sun protection behaviors
- •Have not conducted a SSE in the past three months
- •Own a smartphone and will be willing to use WhatsApp
排除标准
- •Currently being treated for melanoma or nonmelanoma skin cancer
研究组 & 干预措施
Mobile skin cancer intervention
Conduct a pilot of the refined intervention among Hispanics to evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the user-centered mobile skin cancer intervention program.
干预措施: Hispanics Skin Cancer intervention (Behavioral)
Control group: physical activity and nutrition information
Participants will complete a baseline survey first; and then they will be randomly assigned into either the intervention group or the control group. After the random allocation participants will receive instructions on how to use WhatsApp and then the intervention. The participants will receive WhatsApp messages about skin cancer for three months with optimal frequencies determined by prior aims and complete a post-intervention survey which contains the same questions in the pre-survey. The participants will be contacted at six months after the baseline survey to complete another survey similar to the post-intervention survey.
干预措施: Control group: physical activity and nutrition for Hispanics (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
Sun protection behavior by self-report
时间窗: The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals
Mean score of use sunscreen with an SPF 30 or higher, seek shade, wear protective clothing, wear wide-brimmed hat, wear sunglasses
次要结局
- Seek shade behavior by self-report(The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
- Skin self-examination(Changes at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
- Wear sunglasses behavior by self-report(The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
- Wear protective clothing behavior by self-report(The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
- Wear wide-brimmed hat behavior by self-report(The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
- Skin examination by a health care professional(Changes at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals)
研究者
Zhaomeng Niu
Research Associate
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey