Developing an eLearning Program in Helping Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Cancer Care Providers During Tobacco Use Counselling

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center89 enrolled

Overview

This trial aims to develop an electronic learning (eLearning) program and mobile tool for Spanish and Portuguese speaking cancer care providers to use in tobacco counseling of their patients. This study may provide information for the design and implementation of tobacco cessation training programs directed to this group of professionals in low- and middle-income countries for the Latin American region.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To develop and test the feasibility of an eLearning program on brief tobacco counseling specifically designed for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking cancer care providers. II. To linguistically/culturally tailor and test a mobile tool designed to assist in providing effective tobacco counseling and treatment. OUTLINE: Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month. After completion of study, participants are followed up at 3 and 6 months.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Health Care Provider

Interventions

Internet-Based InterventionOTHER

Complete online courses

MeetingOTHER

Participate in virtual meetings

Survey AdministrationOTHER

Ancillary studies

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Be a cancer care provider (CCP) working at one of the above cancer centers * Have direct contact with cancer patients * Have access to the internet during the 4-hour online course and at least once per month to participate in post-training virtual meetings, discussion board postings, email, and periodic audio chat conferences * Have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone (iPhone or Android) with built-in camera and microphone * Have basic proficiency in the use of a computer, including word processing and email * Commit to the STOP Program by completing the online course and sharing lessons learned with other CCPs at the monthly virtual meetings that will take place during the 6 months following course completion

Locations (3)

Hosptial de Cancer de Barretos

Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

Instituto Nacional De Cancerologia

Bogotá, Colombia

Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas

Lima, Peru

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Recruitment and retention rates

Will be used as key parameters for assessing the feasibility of the eLearning program. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test will be used to compare scores obtained in the pre- and post-tests of the eLearning program. Effect sizes will be computed as the absolute value of the difference between the post-test (T2, T3, and T4) and pre-test (T1) scores divided by the mean of the standard deviations for each.

Time frame: Up to 6 months

Linguistically/culturally tailored mobile tool

Computing the System Usability Scale (SUS) scores in the final assessment will allow our research team to analyze cancer care provider's (CCPs) experience of using the tool. A descriptive analysis to compute the SUS score will be performed and later converted to percentile ranks. A percentile rank of 75% will indicate that the tool has high perceived usability. All statistical analyses will be performed using SPSS Statistics version 23 (International Business Machines Corporation).

Time frame: Up to 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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