Awareness Enhancing Interventions

University of Tennessee4,451 enrolled

Overview

The purpose of this study is to determine if increasing awareness and, thus, enhancing positive attitudes about research, prior to recruitment attempts, will increase participation in cancer clinical research among African American (AA) cancer survivors so that recruitment efforts can focus on the most optimal and cost- effective approaches

In this project, 2000 AA potential AMPLIFI project participants will be randomized to the awareness-enhancing intervention (AWEI) or to the comparison condition in which they do not receive AWEI intervention but only the Adapting Multiple Behavior Interventions that Effectively Improve Cancer Survivor Health (AMPLIFI) basic recruitment strategy (No AWEI). Randomization for the AWEI Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) will occur soon after the AMPLIFI recruitment letter is sent, and AWEI interventions will be delivered over a two-week period between the AMPLIFI recruitment invitation letter and the AMPLIFI recruitment call. Survivors randomized to AWEI intervention will be exposed to 8 different combinations of the AWEI components according to different types of strategies and type of information reflecting the survivor voice or not. Subsequent to the AMPLIFI recruitment call, a 20% random sample of cancer survivors will be surveyed over the phone to assess intervention fidelity.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

4,451

Conditions

Research Awareness

Interventions

Navigation - Study Specific - Researcher VoiceOTHER

The intervention is delivered over the telephone

Navigation - Study Specific - Cancer Survivor VoiceOTHER

The intervention is delivered over the telephone

Navigation - Research General - Researcher VoiceOTHER

The intervention is delivered over the telephone

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 50 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * African American/Black * adults (age ≥50 years old) * diagnosed with obesity/physical activity associated cancers that have a 70% or greater 5-year relative cancer-free survival rate multiple myeloma, localized kidney cancer and loco- regional cancers of the colorectum, female breast, prostate, endometrium, and ovary). * 1-5 years post diagnosis * reside in an area with wireless coverage * In the AMPLIFI recruitment pool

Locations (2)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Recruitment Yield

measured by the proportion of targeted survivors who, at the time of the recruitment call, after the screening process is complete, decide to participate in AMPLIFI.

Time frame: within 3 months of receiving intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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