A Youth-led Intervention to Reduce Healthcare Disparities in Cancer Screening
For patients and families
In plain language
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Youth-led cancer screening intervention.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cancer. Basic parameters: 15 years — 80 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
This study engages youth as health advocates to increase cancer screening in their community. The study will evaluate the effectiveness of a youth-led intervention on cancer screening awareness in adults who are overdue for cancer screening.
Interventions
- Behavioral Youth-led cancer screening intervention
High school students will be trained as health advocates and then facilitate discussions about cancer screening recommendations and risk factors with adults in their community. High school students (15-18 years old) from the local community will be recruited for this study, and each student will recruit adults that they live with or are part of their community (i.e. parent) who are eligible for cancer screening. The adult plus youth dyads will all undergo the same youth-led intervention in which
Primary outcome measures
- Rate of Cancer Screening [Time frame: 2 weeks post-intervention]
Secondary outcome measures (5)
- Change in Cancer Screening Knowledge- Adult [Time frame: Baseline and 3 days later]
- Change in Cancer Screening Knowledge- Youth [Time frame: Baseline and after intervention ends]
- Change in Youth Self-Efficacy [Time frame: Baseline and after intervention ends]
- Change in Adult Activation [Time frame: Baseline and 3 days later]
- Proportion of adults who are overdue for each cancer type [Time frame: Baseline]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Student at New Brunswick Health Sciences Technology High School (15-18 years) and their adult family members (18+ years old) who are NJ residents.
- Adults must be eligible for at least one cancer screening other than skin (see below).
- Participants must be fluent in either English or Spanish and the youth must speak the same language as the adult.
Breast: 40-74 year old women Cervical: 21-65 year old women with a cervix (have not had a hysterectomy) Colorectal: 45-75 year olds Prostate: 50 to 69 year old men (start at 45 for black males) Lung: 50 to 80 year olds who currently smoke or quit within the past 15 years
Overall:
21-75 year old women 45-75 year old men 76-80 year olds who currently smoke or quit within the past 15 years
Exclusion criteria
- Students less than 15 years old.
- Adults not eligible for a cancer screening of interest.
- Unable to speak fluent English or Spanish.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- N/A
- Model
- Single group
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Health services research
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- New Brunswick Health Sciences Technology High School — New Brunswick
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07008781 · Pro2025000586