NCT01373320

Faith Moves Mountains: A Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Appalachian Wellness & Cancer Prevention Program

Faith Moves Mountains: A CBPR Appalachian Wellness & Cancer Prevention Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,415 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nancy Schoenberg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of a set of culturally appropriate, faith-placed lay health advisor interventions aimed at facilitating smoking cessation and increasing cancer screening among Appalachian participants.

Detailed description

The developmental phase of this project incorporated community based participatory research (CBPR) principles to identify the needs and preferences of community members with regard to cancer prevention. In the intervention phase, this group-randomized trial administers and evaluates a set of culturally appropriate interventions aimed at facilitating smoking cessation and increasing cancer screening among participants in 6 distressed Appalachian counties. Faith institutions are recruited and randomized to treatment or wait-list control conditions, and participants are recruited and enrolled within those institutions. Participants select one or more targeted health behaviors from a menu including smoking cessation, colorectal cancer screening, cervical cancer screening, and breast cancer screening, and subsequently receive the intervention(s) aimed at their selected health behaviors.

Conditions

• Lung Cancer
• Cervical Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Lay health advisor interactions	For smoking cessation: Cooper-Clayton group sessions plus motivational interviewing, both delivered by local lay health advisor. For all cancer screenings: lay health advisor home visits incorporating motivational interviewing and focused on decreasing participant-identified barriers to screening.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-01
• Completion: 2012-11-01
• First posted: 2011-06-14
• Last updated: 2013-10-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States