Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in Urban African American Communities Via Churches

NCT ID: NCT01139242

Last Updated: 2024-02-26

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 955 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2008-02-29
• Study Completion Date: 2010-05-31

Brief Summary

This is an intervention study to increase colorectal cancer screening and physical activity in members of African-American churches who are 50 years old and older. The control arm receives the Body & Soul program, a program to increase fruit and vegetable intake. The investigators hypothesize that those receiving the intervention, which includes four tailored newsletters and peer counseling, will be more likely to be screened if not up-to-date, and more likely to increase physical activity if screening was up-to-date at baseline, than controls.

Conditions

Colorectal Cancer

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Body & Soul nutritional intervention

This is a standardized intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among church members through pastoral and peer counseling and church activities/menus.

Group Type: OTHER

Body & Soul nutritional intervention

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Pastoral and peer counseling, and church activities/menus to promote increased fruit and vegetable consumption among church members.

Newsletters/peer counseling

Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to promote CRC screening among church members out-of-date according to screening guidelines. For those up-to-date, promotion is of increased physical activity.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental: newsletters and peer counseling

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to promote CRC screening in church members who are out-of-date with screening. Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to others to increase physical activity.

Interventions

Body & Soul nutritional intervention

Pastoral and peer counseling, and church activities/menus to promote increased fruit and vegetable consumption among church members.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Experimental: newsletters and peer counseling

Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to promote CRC screening in church members who are out-of-date with screening. Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to others to increase physical activity.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Members of African-American churches who are at least 50 years old.

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-members of African-American churches; members who are under 50 years of age.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 50 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 99 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

FED

Sponsor Role: collaborator

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Marci K Campbell, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UNC - Chapel Hill

Other Identifiers

U48DP000059-02S1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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05-1271

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id