The Effect of the Prostate Cancer Foundation Screening Guidelines for Black Men on Intention to Screen in Faith-based Communities

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Prostate Cancer Screening

Treatments: Other: Prostate Cancer Screening

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06838325

NCI-2025-01043 (Other Identifier)

2024-1312

Details and patient eligibility

About

To learn about barriers to prostate cancer screening in Black, faith-based communities. Investigators will use the information collected in this study to create a prostate cancer education program that is relevant to Black men within the church and improve prostate cancer screening.

Full description

Primary Objective To determine barriers to prostate cancer screening in Black faith-based communities through focus group assessments which will inform a culturally relevant prostate cancer education and early detection program.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 40 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Self-reported identification of Black/ African American
• Willingness to participate in the study with signed and dated informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Non-english proficiency
• Unwillingness to participate in the study or inability to sign and date an informed consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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24 participants in 1 patient group

Prostate Cancer Foundation Screening

Other group

Description:

Participants will be asked about your views and personal opinions on barriers of prostate cancer screening in the Black community, with a specific focus on Black men in church. Participants will also watch an educational video about prostate cancer and review specialized prostate cancer guidelines for Black men and will be asked to provide feedback about these materials. The focus group will take about 2 hours to complete and will be led by the study Investigator and a research coordinator. A member of the research team will also take notes during the focus group, and the discussion will also be audio recorded and transcribed (written down word for word). Additionally, participant demographic information will be collected (such as your age).

Treatment:

Other: Prostate Cancer Screening