This clinical trial evaluates the effectiveness of a youth-led intervention for improving cancer screening awareness and participation among adults who are overdue for cancer screening. Detecting early stage cancers or precancerous conditions using evidence-based screening considerably reduces cancer incidence and death. Yet many adults who are eligible are overdue for screening and do not meet current screening guidelines. Training high school students to serve as health advocates for adults in this specific population may address several barriers to care such as lack of understanding, distrust, and language and cultural barriers. Empowering students to become actively involved in health promotion positively affects both their own health and that of their families and communities. Parents may be receptive to receiving health information from their children and youth have access to different health information. Thus, this flow of information from the youth to their parents may be able to be leveraged to positively influence their parents’ decisions about their health.
Additional locations may be listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for NCT07008781.
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United States
New Jersey
New Brunswick
New Brunswick Health Sciences Technology High SchoolStatus: Active
Contact: Sara Heinert
Phone: 732-867-9720
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. Train high school students as health advocates for members of their community and educate students on the importance of cancer screening, cancer screening guidelines, and prevention.
II. Develop a youth-led intervention to increase cancer screening rates for adults who are overdue for screening in the local community through motivational interviews, education, and cancer screening resources at home.
III. Evaluate the effectiveness of a youth-led cancer screening intervention on the primary outcome of cancer screening completion in adults who are overdue for cancer screening.
IV. Evaluate change in cancer screening knowledge in adults and youth, youth self-efficacy, adult activation.
V. Capture the proportion of adults who are overdue for each cancer type.
OUTLINE:
Student participants receive training and education on cancer and cancer screening and then use motivational interviewing techniques to facilitate discussions about cancer, screening recommendations, and risk factors over 30-60 minutes each with their adult(s).
After completion of study intervention, participants are followed up with at 1-2 weeks.
Trial PhaseNo phase specified
Trial Typescreening
Lead OrganizationRutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Principal InvestigatorSara Heinert
