Sun Safe Together: A Digital Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention for Adolescents and Their Parents

NCT07681791 | Recruiting

• 2 other identifiers: Pro2025001264R34CA293237
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 104
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this pilot clinical trial is to learn if a digital intervention to improve sun safety, Sun Safe Together (SST), is feasible and acceptable to teenagers and their parents.

Conditions

Skin Cancer Prevention

Keywords

Sun Safety; Teens; Messages; Teen health; Parents; Education

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• Feasibility of recruitment

  Feasibility of recruitment will be assessed by the proportion of eligible parent-teen dyads that enroll in the study

  Baseline

• Acceptability of MMS intervention

  Items were adapted from the Acceptability of Intervention and Feasibility of Intervention Measures to obtain participant feedback about the acceptability, feasibility, ease of use, and impact of the intervention. Individual items are rated on a 5-point likert scale from (1) Completely Disagree to (5) Completely Agree. Higher scores indicated greater acceptability.

  Immediately after the intervention

• Engagement with MMS intervention

  Proportion of messages viewed will be calculated to describe engagement.

  3-months

• Feasibility of Outcome Data Collection - 7-Day Diaries

  Proportion of teens who complete 7-day diaries will be calculated.

  Baseline, 3-months, 6-months

• Feasibility of Outcome Data Collection - UVR Dosimeter

  Proportion of teens who return UVR dosimeter with usable data will be calculated.

  Baseline, 6 months

• Retention

  Proportion of enrolled teens who complete surveys at 3- and 6-months will be calculated.

  3-months, 6-months

Study Arms (1)

Teen MMS & Parent Facebook Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: Teen MMS; Behavioral: Parent Facebook

Interventions

Teen MMS BEHAVIORAL

Teens will receive MMS messages regarding sun safety behaviors and other general health issues for 12 weeks.

Teen MMS & Parent Facebook Intervention

Parent Facebook BEHAVIORAL

Parents of teenagers join a private Facebook group where membership, activities, and content are only viewable by invited members. Content related to teen sun safety and general health will be posted for 12 weeks. Research staff will moderate the group.

Teen MMS & Parent Facebook Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 13 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Parents and teens are participating as dyads, meaning both the parent and the teen need to be deemed eligible based on the criteria below to be able to participate.
• Teens
• Must be ages 13-17 years
• Live with study parent equal to or greater than half time in US
• Have experienced sunburn or indoor tanned in the last year or have a suboptimal sun protection score
• Have no personal history of melanoma or severe medical condition that prevents participation
• Have access to smartphone
• Speak and read English
• Parents/Guardians
• Must be age 18 or older
• Live with a teen equal to or greater than half time in US
• Have a teen who had experienced sunburn or indoor tanned in the last year or have a suboptimal sun protection score
• Have no personal history of melanoma or severe medical condition that prevents participation
• Have internet at home, a Facebook account, and be willing to use Facebook daily
• Have access to smartphone

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey: lead
• National Cancer Institute (NCI): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Rutgers Cancer Institute

New Brunswick, New Jersey, 08901, United States

RECRUITING

Study Officials

• Carolyn Heckman, PhD

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Katie A Devine, PhD

  Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Model Details: Teens and their parents (dyads) will get similar but separate interventions simultaneously.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 25, 2026
• First Posted: July 2, 2026
• Study Start: June 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): February 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): February 1, 2027
• Last Updated: July 2, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share
• Shared Documents: STUDY PROTOCOL, SAP, ICF
• Time Frame: Data will be made available by the time of associated publication or the end of grant funding (whichever is later). The duration of preservation and sharing of the data will be indefinite.
• Access Criteria: De-identified human subject data will be made available in the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) data repository, which restricts access to the data to qualified investigators with an appropriate research question who complete a data use agreement and provide a data security plan.

Locations

US (1)