Improving Sun-Protective Behaviors and Skin Self-Examinations Among African Americans

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Skin Melanoma; Skin Carcinoma

Treatments: Other: Online educational video; Other: Written Educational Brochure

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02417948

CASE1615 (Other Identifier)

P30CA043703 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

NCI-2015-00481 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized clinical trial uses an educational brochure and online tutorial program to assess sun-protective behavior and skin self-examination among African Americans. Skin cancer is very common among African Americans, with a disproportionately high mortality rate. Providing a brochure and an online educational program about sun-protective behaviors may encourage African Americans to take preventative measures against skin cancer, help improve early skin cancer detection, determine how far the disease has spread, and plan the best treatment.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess whether an educational brochure and online program will increase sun-protective behaviors among African-American patients who present at the general dermatology clinic.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To assess whether the educational brochure and online program will improve skills for skin self-examinations among African-American patients who present at the general dermatology clinic.

OUTLINE: Participants are assigned to 1 of 2 arms.

ARM I: Participants receive a skin cancer educational and preventive brochure distributed by the National Cancer Institute and watch a 30-minute online tutorial video called X-Plain about skin cancer, preventative behaviors, and skin self-examinations.

ARM II: Participants receive an educational brochure as in Arm I.

After completion of study, participants are followed up at 30 days.

Enrollment: 143 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-identified African-Americans who are literate and fluent in English

Exclusion criteria

• Non-African-Americans
• English illiteracy
• non-fluency in English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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143 participants in 2 patient groups

Arm I (educational brochure, online educational tutorial)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants receive a skin cancer educational and preventive brochure distributed by the National Cancer Institute and watch a 30-minute online tutorial video called X-Plain about skin cancer, preventative behaviors, and skin self-examinations.

Treatment:

Other: Written Educational Brochure

Other: Online educational video

Arm II (educational brochure)

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants receive an educational brochure as in Arm I.

Treatment:

Other: Written Educational Brochure