NCT06681077

A Community Health Education Intervention for Increasing Community-driven Actions to Reduce the Cancer Burden in Western New York

I Can Join the Fight Against Cancer: An Intervention to Programmatically Build Grassroots Actions to Reduce the Cancer Burden

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Roswell Park Cancer Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This clinical trial evaluates a community health education intervention (I CAN) for increasing community-driven actions to reduce the cancer burden in Western New York. Engaging community members is a critical component of designing impactful programs to reduce the cancer burden. Leaders at the national, state, and local levels have all called for more community partnerships and engagement in design of health intervention and policies. The I CAN intervention is a workshop that includes a presentation outlining key concepts related to social network processes and the cancer burden in Western New York, a structured skill-building activity, and then empowering and motivating activities meant to cultivate momentum and excitement for action. This community health education intervention may be able to provide a formalized process for empowering and facilitating community members to take steps to reduce the community cancer burden.

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Examine the feasibility of the I CAN intervention. II. Examine the acceptability of the I CAN intervention. III. Examine topic areas selected for action within participants' I CAN plans for action. OUTLINE: Participants attend an I CAN intervention workshop over 2 hours.

Conditions

• Healthy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Community Health Education	Receive I CAN intervention
OTHER	Survey Administration	Ancillary studies

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-11-16
• Primary completion: 2026-11-15
• Completion: 2026-11-15
• First posted: 2024-11-08
• Last updated: 2026-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States