NCT00459238

Telephone-Based Cancer Education With or Without Telephone-Based Counseling in Young Participants

A Telephone-Based Education and Prevention Intervention for Teens and Young Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 104 (actual)
• Sponsor: Georgetown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Telephone-based cancer education and counseling may help participants learn about ways of preventing cancer and choose a lifestyle that will help them stay healthy as they grow older. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying telephone-based cancer education and telephone-based counseling to see how well they work compared with telephone-based cancer education alone in young participants.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: Primary * Compare the efficacy of telephone-based cancer education with vs without counseling in younger participants. Secondary * Determine the mechanisms by which education with counseling may impact cancer-relevant cognitive and behavioral outcomes. * Identify teens who may be most and least likely to benefit from education with counseling. OUTLINE: This is a pilot, controlled, randomized study. Participants are stratified according to age (13-14 years vs 15 years vs 16 years vs 17 years vs 18-21 years), gender, race (white vs black vs other), and health status (chronic disease vs no chronic disease). Participants are randomized to 1 of 2 education arms. * Arm I: Participants undergo cancer education sessions via telephone over 45 minutes once a week for 8 weeks. * Arm II: Participants under cancer education sessions as in arm I and counseling techniques during the same telephone sessions. In both arms, participants receive an intervention kit by mail before the first telephone call. The intervention kit includes age-appropriate self-help materials. PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 300 participants will be accrued for this study.

Conditions

• Unspecified Childhood Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	counseling intervention	subjects will receive telephone based counseling
OTHER	educational intervention	subjects will received telephone based education

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-10-01
• Primary completion: 2009-12-01
• Completion: 2010-12-01
• First posted: 2007-04-11
• Last updated: 2017-05-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States