Feasibility of an Educational Intervention for the Prevention of Breast Cancer by Modifying Risk Behaviors Through a Web Application
Phase: NA
Conditions: Women's Health: Neoplasm of Breast
Sponsor: University of Oviedo

Title: Feasibility of an Educational Intervention for the Prevention of Breast Cancer by 
Modifying Risk Behaviors Through a Web Application 
Date: November 9, 2020 
ID: NCT04396665 
 
 

Aim: To evaluate the viability of an educational intervention for the prevention of breast 
cancer risk and the modification of their risk behaviors through the use of a web 
application in women living in the Principality of Asturias. 
Design: pilot test; two arms. The randomization for intervention or control group are 
doing based on the where the city where the women home is located. 
Participants: women aged 235 to 50 without breast cancer diagnosis. 
Variables: personal characteristics (age, status, educational level, civil status), MIC 
index, dietary characteristics, level of physical activity, knowledge related with breast 
cancer symptoms and risk factors. 
Intervention: The Intervention Group received a 6-month intervention using a web-app 
related. The web-app includes some sections: Information related with breast cancer 
risk. Breast self-examination. Written text and videos done by a nurse. Physical exercise. 
Written text and videos done by a physiotherapist. Dietary information. Written text 
and videos done by a nutrition expert. The Control Group did not receive any 
intervention. 
Data analysis 
Initially, the personal characteristics of the sample and the losses produced in the 
reference population were described. Subsequently, before and after the educational 
intervention, the variables related to the healthy behaviors under study were described, 
as well as the variables that referred to knowledge about breast self-examination, risk 
factors and signs-symptoms of breast cancer. For this, the indices of the descriptive 
statistics were used: absolute frequencies, percentages, means and standard deviations. 
The normality of the quantitative variables was determined using the Kolmogorov Smirnov 
test, 
which suggested the use of parametric tests.