Clinical trial NCT03539991: Developing an eLearning Program in Helping Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Cancer Care Providers During Tobacco Use Counselling
Official title: SWOG Tobacco Program for the Oncology Practice
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Care Provider
Lead sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2018-05-30
Enrollment: 89
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Brief summary: This trial aims to develop an electronic learning (eLearning) program and mobile tool for Spanish and Portuguese speaking cancer care providers to use in tobacco counseling of their patients. This study may provide information for the design and implementation of tobacco cessation training programs directed to this group of professionals in low- and middle-income countries for the Latin American region.

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To develop and test the feasibility of an eLearning program on brief tobacco counseling specifically designed for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking cancer care providers.

II. To linguistically/culturally tailor and test a mobile tool designed to assist in providing effective tobacco counseling and treatment.

OUTLINE:

Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month.

After completion of study, participants are followed up at 3 and 6 months.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Be a cancer care provider (CCP) working at one of the above cancer centers
* Have direct contact with cancer patients
* Have access to the internet during the 4-hour online course and at least once per month to participate in post-training virtual meetings, discussion board postings, email, and periodic audio chat conferences
* Have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone (iPhone or Android) with built-in camera and microphone
* Have basic proficiency in the use of a computer, including word processing and email
* Commit to the STOP Program by completing the online course and sharing lessons learned with other CCPs at the monthly virtual meetings that will take place during the 6 months following course completion

Primary outcomes:
measure: Recruitment and retention rates
timeFrame: Up to 6 months
measure: Linguistically/culturally tailored mobile tool
timeFrame: Up to 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
measure: Gains in participants' competencies in providing smoking cessation assistance to cancer patients
timeFrame: Baseline up to 6 months
Locations:
city: Barretos
country: Brazil
facility: Hosptial de Cancer de Barretos
state: Sao Paulo
city: Bogota
country: Colombia
facility: Instituto Nacional De Cancerologia
city: Lima
country: Peru
facility: Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Neoplasicas
Study officials:
affiliation: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
name: Susan Peterson
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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