Telephone-Based Cancer Education With or Without Telephone-Based Counseling in Young Participants

NCT00459238 | Completed

• 4 other identifiers: CDR0000538178R03CA119686P30CA051008GUMC-2006-243
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 104
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Telephone-based cancer education and counseling may help participants learn about ways of preventing cancer and choose a lifestyle that will help them stay healthy as they grow older. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying telephone-based cancer education and telephone-based counseling to see how well they work compared with telephone-based cancer education alone in young participants.

Conditions

Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Keywords

unspecified childhood solid tumor, protocol specific

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (11)

• Multiple risk factor index

  6 months

• Knowledge

  6 months

• Health history taking

  3 months

• Nutrition

  6 months

• Physical activity

  6 months

• Tobacco use intentions and behavior

  6 months

• Alcohol use intentions and behavior

  6 months

• Screening intentions

  6 months

• Self-efficacy

  6 months

• Perceived benefits

  6 months

• Perceived barriers

  6 months

Interventions

counseling intervention OTHER

subjects will receive telephone based counseling

educational intervention OTHER

subjects will received telephone based education

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years - 21 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS: * No life-threatening illness (e.g., cancer) * Chronic illnesses (e.g., asthma, diabetes) allowed with permission by physician PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS: * No serious restrictions on physical activity, diet, or nutrition, including any of the following: * Untreated exercise-induced asthma * Orthopedic or neurological problems * Medical conditions affecting nutritional status, intestinal absorption, or response to nutritional intervention (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease) * No serious mental illness or developmental disability that would preclude study compliance, including eating disorders * Must adequately understand, speak, and read English PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY: * Not specified

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Sponsors & Collaborators

• Georgetown University: lead
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center

Washington D.C., District of Columbia, 20007, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Counseling; Early Intervention, Educational

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Mental Health Services; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Community Health Services; Health Services; Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services; Child Health Services; Preventive Health Services

Study Officials

• Kenneth Tercyak, PhD

  Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

  STUDY CHAIR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 9, 2007
• First Posted: April 11, 2007
• Study Start: October 1, 2006
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2009
• Study Completion: December 1, 2010
• Last Updated: May 17, 2017

Record last verified: 2017-02

Locations

US (1)