Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening in Urban African American Communities Via Churches (ACTS)

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Body & Soul nutritional intervention; Behavioral: Experimental: newsletters and peer counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT01139242

U48DP000059-02S1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

05-1271

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an intervention study to increase colorectal cancer screening and physical activity in members of African-American churches who are 50 years old and older. The control arm receives the Body & Soul program, a program to increase fruit and vegetable intake. The investigators hypothesize that those receiving the intervention, which includes four tailored newsletters and peer counseling, will be more likely to be screened if not up-to-date, and more likely to increase physical activity if screening was up-to-date at baseline, than controls.

Enrollment: 955 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 99 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Members of African-American churches who are at least 50 years old.

Exclusion criteria

• Non-members of African-American churches; members who are under 50 years of age.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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955 participants in 2 patient groups

Body & Soul nutritional intervention

Other group

Description:

This is a standardized intervention to increase fruit and vegetable consumption among church members through pastoral and peer counseling and church activities/menus.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Body & Soul nutritional intervention

Newsletters/peer counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Four tailored newsletters and peer counseling calls to promote CRC screening among church members out-of-date according to screening guidelines. For those up-to-date, promotion is of increased physical activity.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Experimental: newsletters and peer counseling