Kin KeeperSM: Reducing Disparities Through Cancer Literacy and Screening (KinKeeper)

Michigan State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Cervical Cancer

Treatments: Other: Standard of care; Behavioral: Kin KeeperSM Cancer Prevention Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01910350

10-256

1R01NR011323 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. To determine if the Kin KeeperSM Cancer Prevention Intervention increases first time and appropriately timed breast cancer screening rates among Black, Latina and Arab women; 2) To determine if the Kin KeeperSM Cancer Prevention Intervention increase first time and appropriately time cervical cancer screening rates among Black, Latina and Arab women; 3) To measure functional cancer literacy over time at the individual and familial level and 4) Assess rates of healthcare utilization cost among women in the Kin KeeperSM intervention and control-comparison groups.

Enrollment: 516 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants:self-identified as Black Latina and Arab women ho can recruit at least two bloodline female family members (mother daughter sister, etc.; can accommodate two in-home visits by a community health worker; and 21-70 years of age.

Exclusion criteria

• are not self-identified as Black, Latina, or Arab; do not have direct bloodline relatives; and are younger than 21 or older than 70 years of age.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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516 participants in 2 patient groups

Cancer prevention intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Cancer prevention intervention: Experimental group receives intensive 2 hour education in each breast and cervical cancer risks and prevention intervention, and face to face reading of post intervention surveys by an community health worker.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Kin KeeperSM Cancer Prevention Intervention

Control group receives standard care

Active Comparator group

Description:

The control group receives reading materials and brochures on breast and cervical cancer such as one would receive in a doctors office and post condition surveys. All materials are read by the participant without the interaction or assistance of the community health worker.

Treatment:

Other: Standard of care