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

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status

Completed

Conditions

Health Care Provider

Treatments

Other: Meeting

Other: Survey Administration

Other: Internet-Based Intervention

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT03539991

NCI-2018-01340 (Registry Identifier)

PA17-0878 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment

89 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

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