Cultural Adaptation of an Educational Tool in Medullary Thyroid Cancer
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Interviews.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Medullary Thyroid Cancer (MTC), Cultural Adaptation. Basic parameters: from 18 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
To find good information about medullary thyroid cancer that is easy to understand and reliable, so researchers aim to design some new educational materials to help.
Detailed description
Primary Objectives
1. To co-develop a culturally-adapted educational tool for the Latino/Latina MTC population using the previously developed MTCEducate.org as a framework. (Phase 1) 2. To test, refine, and produce a culturally adapted educational prototype and is intended to assess participants' understanding after reviewing the decision aid as part of the iterative testing and refinement process (Phase 2)
Secondary Objectives
1. To assess the tool's acceptability post-production among a broader population of Latino(a) MTC participants and caregivers using the Ottawa Acceptability Scale (Phase 3) 2. To disseminate the educational tool to a broader population of Latino(a)s 3. To summarize the clinico-demographics of educational tool users
Interventions
- Other Interviews
* Questionnaires/Survey Measures * Qualitative Instruments
Primary outcome measures
- Questionnaires/Survey Measures [Time frame: Through study completion; an average of 1 year]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
- Males and females; Age: ≥18 years old
- Identified ethnicity as "Hispanic" or "Latino/Latina"
- Ability to read, write, and speak Spanish
- Those who are pregnant are eligible to participate
- Have or will face this decision, including: a. Participant/survivor - who has medullary thyroid carcinoma, as determined by a clinician or documented in Multi-Institutional Medullary Thyroid Cancer Collaborative Registry; b. Caregiver/family member - of Participant/survivor who has medullary thyroid carcinoma, as nominated by the Participant/survivor
Exclusion criteria
- Those < age 18
- Ethnic identity as non-Hispanic or non-Latino/a individual
- Individuals with cognitive or psychological impairment (e.g., depression, anxiety, severe mental illness as documented in the registry
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Observational model
- Cohort
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07142005 · 2025-0198 · NCI-2025-04498