SMART Project in Preventing Skin Cancer

Temple University Health System (TUHS)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Skin Carcinoma

Treatments

Behavioral: Compliance Monitoring

Other: Health Telemonitoring

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

NIH

Identifiers

NCT03177057

P30CA006927 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

IRB12846 (Other Identifier)

NCI-2015-02089 (Registry Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot clinical trial studies how well Self Monitoring And Readiness Texting (SMART) project works in sun exposure and protection behaviors. Measuring how behavior tracking and individually tailored messages affect risk behaviors in patients with skin cancer may help doctors plan the best prevention plan and decrease national melanoma incidence and mortality.

Full description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To test the effects of a behavior tracking and individually-tailored daily text message intervention on sun protection and exposure behaviors and to see if these techniques will be most effective in conjunction or separately.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To examine mediators in the effects of the intervention on safe sun behaviors, based on Fishbein?s Integrative Model.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 4 study arms.

ARM I (SELF-MONITORING): Patients complete tanning and sun protection usage entries daily for 14 days.

ARM II (TEXT MESSAGES): Patients receive individualized text messages based on baseline assessment of tanning motives (appearance, enjoyment, social) daily for 14 days.

ARM III (COMBINED GROUP): Patients complete tanning and sun protection usage entries and also receive individualized text messages daily for 14 days.

ARM IV (CONTROL GROUP): Patients complete study assessments.

After completion of study, patients are followed up at 2 weeks.

Enrollment

114 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 29 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women from the Philadelphia metropolitan area who own a mobile phone and who meet criteria for at least moderate risk of skin cancer based on a brief risk assessment tool

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

114 participants in 4 patient groups

Arm I (self-monitoring)

Experimental group

Description:

ARM I (SELF-MONITORING): Patients complete tanning and sun protection usage entries daily for 14 days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Compliance Monitoring

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Arm II (text messages)

Experimental group

Description:

ARM II (TEXT MESSAGES): Patients receive individualized text messages based on baseline assessment of tanning motives (appearance, enjoyment, social) daily for 14 days.

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Other: Health Telemonitoring

Arm III (self-monitoring, text messages)

Experimental group

Description:

ARM III (COMBINED GROUP): Patients complete tanning and sun protection usage entries and also receive individualized text messages daily for 14 days.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Compliance Monitoring

Other: Questionnaire Administration

Other: Health Telemonitoring

Arm IV (questionnaire administration)