Stories for Change: Early Detection Can Save Lives

Mayo Clinic

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: Digital Storytelling Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05956353

23-001860

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the Stories for Change (S4C) Cancer Prevention digital storytelling intervention for acceptability and socio-behavioral constructs to increase cancer screening among Hispanic or Latino individuals.

Enrollment: 51 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-identify as Hispanic, Latino/a/x/e, or Chicano/a/x;
• For breast cancer screening: age 40-74 years; for cervical cancer screening: age 21-65 years; for colorectal cancer screening: age 45-75 year
• Receive primary care at either Hennepin Healthcare (HH) or Mountain Park Health Center (MPHC), or Mayo Clinic.
• At least one office visit within the previous 12 months to the primary care site.
• Eligibility for breast, cervical, or colorectal cancer screening documented in the electronic medical record (EMR).
• Intention to continue to receive medical care at HH, MPHC or Mayo Clinic for the next three months.

If a potential participant is eligible for more than one screening, they will be given the option of participating in multiple versions of the intervention.

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals with previous breast, cervical, or colorectal cancer diagnoses.
• For the participants in the colorectal cancer screening intervention, those under surveillance (i.e., did not have a cancer diagnosis but did have polyps) will also be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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51 participants in 1 patient group

Stories for Change: Prevention (S4C) intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants who are due or overdue for cancer screening will receive the digital storytelling intervention and complete a cross-sectional survey to assess intervention acceptability, socio-behavioral constructs, and theory-based constructs.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Digital Storytelling Intervention