Clinical trial NCT00742729: Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Filipino Americans
Official title: Increasing Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Filipino Americans
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Colorectal Cancer
Keywords: Colorectal cancer screening
Fecal occult blood test
Endoscopies
Filipino American immigrants
Community based organizations and churches
Lead sponsor: Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: American Cancer Society, Inc.
First posted: 2008-08-28
Enrollment: 906
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 50
Maximum age (years): 70
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: SCREENING

Brief summary: Develop and evaluate in a randomized trial an educational small group intervention to increase colorectal cancer screening among Filipino Americans.

Detailed description: The purpose of this research study is to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening among older Filipino Americans, specifically the use of fecal occult blood tests (FOBTs). We will design a culturally specific intervention, an educational small group discussion with a Filipino health professional. The effect of the intervention will be tested with 620 Filipino Americans. Subjects will be recruited at community-based organizations and churches and invited to join a 1 1/2 hour discussion of health issues with their partner and some of their friends. A third of the subjects will discuss exercise (control group), another third will discuss CRC and receive an FOBT kit, and the remaining third will discuss CRC and will not receive an FOBT kit. Three months after the group session, subjects in the CRC (intervention) groups will receive a letter reminding them to get screened. All subjects will be interviewed before and 6 months after the group sessions to assess CRC screening levels in the three groups. Self-reported CRC screening will be verified by a review of their medical records.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Being: a Filipino American,
* Member of or affiliated with participating community agencies, between the ages of 50 and 70,
* Not up-to-date with colorectal cancer screening at baseline

Exclusion Criteria:

* Being younger than 50 or older than 70 years,
* Not being a member or not affiliated with participating community agencies,
* Not being Filipino American or up-to-date with colorectal cancer screening at baseline

Primary outcomes:
measure: Receipt of a colorectal cancer screening test
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge and attitudes regarding CRC screening.
timeFrame: 6 months post-intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Los Angeles
country: United States
facility: Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Univ of California Los Angeles
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles
name: Annette E Maxwell, Dr.P.H.
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Maxwell AE, Danao LL, Crespi CM, Antonio C, Garcia GM, Bastani R. Disparities in the receipt of fecal occult blood test versus endoscopy among Filipino American immigrants. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2008 Aug;17(8):1963-7. doi: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2800.
citation: Maxwell AE, Bastani R, Danao LL, Antonio C, Garcia GM, Crespi CM. Results of a community-based randomized trial to increase colorectal cancer screening among Filipino Americans. Am J Public Health. 2010 Nov;100(11):2228-34. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.176230. Epub 2010 Sep 23.
citation: Maxwell AE, Bastani R, Crespi CM, Danao LL, Cayetano RT. Behavioral mediators of colorectal cancer screening in a randomized controlled intervention trial. Prev Med. 2011 Feb;52(2):167-73. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2010.11.007. Epub 2010 Nov 25.