AANCART Research Project on Lay Health Workers and Asian Americans

NCT ID: NCT01904890

Last Updated: 2015-12-30

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

994 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2012-03-31

Study Completion Date

2015-08-31

Brief Summary

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This is a behavioral research study to evaluate the effectiveness of a type of health education, lay health worker (LHWs), on increasing the use of a routine health behavior, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, among Asian Americans, who underutilize such screening. Using quantitative and qualitative methods and a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, the project will develop and implement a group randomized controlled trial to evaluate LHW effectiveness in promoting CRC screening among Asian Americans age 50 to 75. The investigators will conduct focus groups and individual interviews with community participants to revise training and survey materials developed in prior projects. The investigators will recruit LHWs to be randomly assigned to the intervention arm and to the comparison arm. The LHWs will each recruit 15 participants from their social network. Intervention LHWs will be taught to teach their participants about CRC screening through 2 outreach sessions and 2 telephone calls aimed at increasing their CRC screening receipt. LHWs and participants in the comparison group will receive a bilingual CRC brochure as well as 2 lectures on healthy nutrition for cardiovascular health delivered by a health educator and an optional post- intervention LHW outreach session on CRC screening. Effectiveness of the intervention will be measured by pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys of community participants' CRC screening behaviors. The investigators will also conduct ethnographic observations of LHWs and their participants during the small group sessions and post- intervention focus groups to understand how such a health education approach may work.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Colorectal Cancer

Keywords

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Asian Americans colorectal cancer screening cancer prevention Filipinos Americans Hmong Americans Korean Americans Randomized Controlled Trials

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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CRC Prevention and Screening Education

Intervention Lay Health Workers (LHWs) will be taught to teach their participants about CRC screening through 2 outreach sessions and 2 telephone calls aimed at increasing their CRC screening receipt.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

CRC Prevention and Screening Education

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Refer to Arm Description

Nutrition Education

LHWs and participants in the comparison group will receive a bilingual CRC brochure as well as 2 lectures on healthy nutrition for cardiovascular health delivered by a health educator and an optional post- intervention LHW outreach session on CRC screening.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Nutrition Education

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Refer to Arm Description

Interventions

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CRC Prevention and Screening Education

Refer to Arm Description

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition Education

Refer to Arm Description

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* self-identified as Filipino, Hmong, or Korean Americans
* age 50 to 75
* speak a language that the lay health worker (LHW) can speak such as Tagalog, Ilocano, Hmong, Korean, or English
* live in relevant area and intend to stay there for at least 12 months
* are willing to participate in a study about health behaviors involving nutrition or CRC screening.

Exclusion Criteria

* personal history of CRC
* medical problems which may prevent them from attending 2 educational sessions
Minimum Eligible Age

50 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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University of California, Davis

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, Los Angeles

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of Hawaii

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Tung Nguyen, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

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University of California Los Angeles

Los Angeles, California, United States

Site Status

University of California Davis

Sacramento, California, United States

Site Status

University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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U54CA153499

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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U54CA153499 Sub7323

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id