Clinical trial NCT01740219: Promoting Organizational Capacity to Implement Cancer Control Programs Among Latino Churches
Official title: Promoting the Utilization of Cancer Early Detection Methods Among Latinos in Church: a Faith-based Approach
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cancer
Keywords: Health promotion
Religion and medicine
Hispanic Americans
Randomized controlled trial
Program evaluation
Neoplasms/prevention & control
Mass screening
Female
Male
Preventive Health Services/methods
Adult
Organizations
Lead sponsor: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Massachusetts, Boston
First posted: 2012-12-04
Enrollment: 348
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 21
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This research study aims to develop an organizational-level intervention to enable communities to adopt, adapt, implement and sustain evidence-based interventions (EBIs) to address cancer disparities among Latinos. The investigators partner with faith-based organizations, since they play a highly prominent role in Latino community life. This three-phase study will: (1) improve understanding of the organizational infrastructure, skills and resources required by Latino churches to implement EBIs for cancer control, (2) develop a capacity-building intervention; and (3) test the intervention's effectiveness in a randomized trial.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parishes eligible for the Randomized trial are those that are: Roman Catholic, located in Massachusetts, offer religious services in Spanish, and have taken part in the organizational survey.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not Roman Catholic, not located in Massachusetts, don't offer religious services in Spanish, and have not participated in the organizational survey.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Implementation
timeFrame: 3-months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: University of Massachusetts Boston
state: Massachusetts
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
state: Massachusetts
city: Medford
country: United States
facility: Tufts University
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
name: Jennifer D Allen, ScD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: University of Massachusetts, Boston
name: Maria Idali Torres, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Allen JD, Shelton RC, Kephart L, Jandorf L, Folta SC, Knott CL. Organizational characteristics conducive to the implementation of health programs among Latino churches. Implement Sci Commun. 2020 Jul 6;1:62. doi: 10.1186/s43058-020-00052-2. eCollection 2020.
citation: Allen JD, Shelton RC, Kephart L, Tom LS, Leyva B, Ospino H, Cuevas AG. Examining the external validity of the CRUZA study, a randomized trial to promote implementation of evidence-based cancer control programs by faith-based organizations. Transl Behav Med. 2020 Feb 3;10(1):213-222. doi: 10.1093/tbm/iby099.
citation: Allen JD, Torres MI, Tom LS, Leyva B, Galeas AV, Ospino H. Dissemination of evidence-based cancer control interventions among Catholic faith-based organizations: results from the CRUZA randomized trial. Implement Sci. 2016 May 18;11(1):74. doi: 10.1186/s13012-016-0430-6.