Education for Prevention of Melanoma in Hispanic Populations

Mayo Clinic

Status and phase: Active, not recruiting; Phase 2

Conditions: Melanoma

Treatments: Other: Educational Intervention; Other: Questionnaire Administration

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05388851

21-010065 (Other Identifier)

NCI-2022-03769 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This clinical trial is to develop an educational platform to educate and prevent melanoma in Hispanic populations. Melanoma is cancer arising in the skin. Educational platforms to increase the knowledge and practice of sun smart behaviors (sunscreen use, sun protective clothing use, self-skin examination) may help reduce risk of and incidence of melanoma and improve cancer survival.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. Develop online education platform to educate the Hispanic community. II. Demonstrate improvement in knowledge and practice of sun smart behaviors. III. Determine if the education platform leads to increase visits to their medical provider and increase diagnosis of skin cancers, particularly melanoma, in our population.

OUTLINE:

Participants complete an educational training module and complete questionnaire at baseline (before educational training module) and 3 months after completing educational training.

Enrollment: 145 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mayo Clinic patients who self-identify as Hispanic or Latino
• Age 18 and older
• Have an email on file with Mayo Clinic

Exclusion criteria

• All patients who do not meet inclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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145 participants in 1 patient group

Prevention (Educational training)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants complete an educational training module and complete questionnaire at baseline (before educational training module) and 3 months after completing educational training.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Other: Educational Intervention