Faith Moves Mountains: An Appalachian Cervical Cancer Prevention Project (FMM)

Nancy Schoenberg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cervical Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Lay health advisor visits and newsletter

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01372241

R01CA108696

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a faith-placed lay health advisor intervention is effective in increasing use of Pap smears among middle-aged and older Appalachian women.

Full description

Project development relied on principles of community based participatory research. Participants were recruited from faith institutions in four distressed Appalachian Kentucky counties. Investigators at the University of Kentucky worked closely with local staff who implemented study procedures in the field.

Enrollment: 345 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40 to 64 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Outside of cervical cancer screening guidelines at the time of study initiation
• Able to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• History of cervical cancer
• History of hysterectomy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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345 participants in 2 patient groups

Early Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

This group served as the treatment group for analysis of the primary outcome.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Lay health advisor visits and newsletter

Delayed Intervention

No Intervention group

Description:

This group served as a wait-list control group, eventually receiving the intervention after the treatment group completed the intervention and the primary outcomes were assessed for both groups.