Clinical trial NCT06605196: Improving Cancer Prevention and Control Through Academic-local Public Health Department Partnerships
Official title: Improving Cancer Prevention and Control Through Academic-local Public Health Department Partnerships
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer
Keywords: Improving cancer prevention and control
academic-local public health department partnerships
Lead sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
First posted: 2024-09-20
Enrollment: 364
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to understand how to leverage structures and processes of academic health department (AHD) partnerships to facilitate implementation of cancer related evidence-based programs and policies (EBPPs).

Detailed description: The investigators will conduct a group-randomized study (total N=28 AHD partnerships) to evaluate the effect of strategies to increase implementation of cancer control and prevention EBPPs by supporting AHD partnerships. Partnerships will be randomized 1:1 to either an active implementation arm in which they will receive tailored strategies based on prior knowledge of successful partnerships or to an existing set of resources for AHD partnerships. A mixed methods approach will be used to evaluate changes in AHD partnerships and understand how contextual factors may have impacted the AHD partnership's ability to support EBPP adoption.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Local health department practitioners who are involved in the implementation of cancer prevention and control programs within their communities and are engaged in an academic-health department partnership.
* Employees in academic settings currently partnering with local health departments. These partnerships could be located anywhere within the United States.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals under the age of 18 years old.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Evidence-Based Interventions
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Academic Health Department Evidence-Based Interventions
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Organizational Collaboration - Aligning strategy
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Organizational Collaboration - Coordinating Current Work
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Joint Decision Making
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Joint Operation
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Reduced Autonomy
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Resource Sharing
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Perceived Collaboration Outcomes
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Awareness of Evidence-Based Decision Making Culture Supportive of Evidence-Based Decision Making
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Capacity and Expectations for Evidence-based Decision Making
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Resource Availability
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Evaluation Capacity
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Individual Skills
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Organizational Capacity for Evidence-Based Decision Making/Leadership
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Individual Skills for Health Equity
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Leadership
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Organizational Climate and Culture
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Organizational Characteristics Related to Health Equity
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Environmental Support
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Funding Stability
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
measure: Strategic Planning
timeFrame: Baseline, 2 years post baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Saint Louis
country: United States
facility: Prevention Research Center at Washington University in St. Louis
state: Missouri
Study officials:
affiliation: Washington University School of Medicine
name: Stephanie Mazzucca-Ragan
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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