AANCART Research Project on Lay Health Workers and Asian Americans
AANCARTLHW
Asian American Network for Cancer Awareness, Research, and Training (AANCART): The National Center for Reducing Asian American Cancer Health Disparities Research Project on Lay Health Workers and Asian Americans
2 other identifiers
interventional
994
1 country
3
Brief Summary
This is a behavioral research study to evaluate the effectiveness of a type of health education, lay health worker (LHWs), on increasing the use of a routine health behavior, colorectal cancer (CRC) screening, among Asian Americans, who underutilize such screening. Using quantitative and qualitative methods and a community-based participatory research (CBPR) approach, the project will develop and implement a group randomized controlled trial to evaluate LHW effectiveness in promoting CRC screening among Asian Americans age 50 to 75. The investigators will conduct focus groups and individual interviews with community participants to revise training and survey materials developed in prior projects. The investigators will recruit LHWs to be randomly assigned to the intervention arm and to the comparison arm. The LHWs will each recruit 15 participants from their social network. Intervention LHWs will be taught to teach their participants about CRC screening through 2 outreach sessions and 2 telephone calls aimed at increasing their CRC screening receipt. LHWs and participants in the comparison group will receive a bilingual CRC brochure as well as 2 lectures on healthy nutrition for cardiovascular health delivered by a health educator and an optional post- intervention LHW outreach session on CRC screening. Effectiveness of the intervention will be measured by pre-intervention and post-intervention surveys of community participants' CRC screening behaviors. The investigators will also conduct ethnographic observations of LHWs and their participants during the small group sessions and post- intervention focus groups to understand how such a health education approach may work.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable colorectal-cancer
Started Mar 2012
Typical duration for not_applicable colorectal-cancer
3 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
Trial Relationships
Click on a node to explore related trials.
Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
March 1, 2012
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
July 10, 2013
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
July 22, 2013
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
August 1, 2015
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
August 1, 2015
CompletedDecember 30, 2015
December 1, 2015
3.4 years
July 10, 2013
December 29, 2015
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Receipt of CRC Screening
self-report of ever had fecal occult blood test (FOBT), sigmoidoscopy, or colonoscopy
Baseline to 6 months
Secondary Outcomes (2)
Up-to-date CRC screening receipt
Baseline to 6 months
CRC screening Intention
Baseline to 6 months
Study Arms (2)
CRC Prevention and Screening Education
EXPERIMENTALIntervention Lay Health Workers (LHWs) will be taught to teach their participants about CRC screening through 2 outreach sessions and 2 telephone calls aimed at increasing their CRC screening receipt.
Nutrition Education
ACTIVE COMPARATORLHWs and participants in the comparison group will receive a bilingual CRC brochure as well as 2 lectures on healthy nutrition for cardiovascular health delivered by a health educator and an optional post- intervention LHW outreach session on CRC screening.
Interventions
Refer to Arm Description
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- self-identified as Filipino, Hmong, or Korean Americans
- age 50 to 75
- speak a language that the lay health worker (LHW) can speak such as Tagalog, Ilocano, Hmong, Korean, or English
- live in relevant area and intend to stay there for at least 12 months
- are willing to participate in a study about health behaviors involving nutrition or CRC screening.
You may not qualify if:
- personal history of CRC
- medical problems which may prevent them from attending 2 educational sessions
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- University of California, San Franciscolead
- University of California, Daviscollaborator
- University of California, Los Angelescollaborator
- University of Hawaiicollaborator
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)collaborator
Study Sites (3)
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angeles, California, 90095, United States
University of California Davis
Sacramento, California, 95817, United States
University of Hawai'i at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, 96822, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Tung Nguyen, MD
University of California, San Francisco
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- PREVENTION
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
July 10, 2013
First Posted
July 22, 2013
Study Start
March 1, 2012
Primary Completion
August 1, 2015
Study Completion
August 1, 2015
Last Updated
December 30, 2015
Record last verified: 2015-12