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Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial

BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most deadly cancer affecting US adults and is also one of the most treatable cancers when detected at an earlier clinical stage of disease through screening. CRC health disparities experienced by African Americans are due in part to the later stage o...

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Autores principales: Luque, John S., Matthew, Olayemi O., Jackson, Deloria R., Vargas, Matthew A., Austin, Tifini, Ali, Askal, Kiros, Gebre E., Harris, Cynthia M., Tawk, Rima, Gwede, Clement K., Wallace, Kristin, Jean-Pierre, Pascal
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8845372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35168640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06076-4
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author Luque, John S.
Matthew, Olayemi O.
Jackson, Deloria R.
Vargas, Matthew A.
Austin, Tifini
Ali, Askal
Kiros, Gebre E.
Harris, Cynthia M.
Tawk, Rima
Gwede, Clement K.
Wallace, Kristin
Jean-Pierre, Pascal
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Matthew, Olayemi O.
Jackson, Deloria R.
Vargas, Matthew A.
Austin, Tifini
Ali, Askal
Kiros, Gebre E.
Harris, Cynthia M.
Tawk, Rima
Gwede, Clement K.
Wallace, Kristin
Jean-Pierre, Pascal
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description BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most deadly cancer affecting US adults and is also one of the most treatable cancers when detected at an earlier clinical stage of disease through screening. CRC health disparities experienced by African Americans are due in part to the later stage of diagnosis, suggesting the importance of improving African Americans’ CRC screening participation. The national Screen to Save (S2S) initiative employs a community health educator to deliver CRC screening education which can be tailored for specific populations, and such approaches have increased CRC screening rates in disadvantaged and racial/ethnic minority populations. METHODS/DESIGN: In this trial emphasizing stool-based CRC screening, focus groups informed the development of an adapted S2S video and brochure tailored for African Americans and identified preferred motivational text messages for a multicomponent community health advisor (CHA) intervention. A CHA hired from the community was trained to deliver a 6-week CRC educational intervention consisting of an initial face-to-face meeting followed by 5 weeks of calls and texts. Interested eligible persons are enrolled primarily through recruitment by two partnering community health centers (CHCs) and secondarily through various outreach channels and, after consenting and completing a baseline survey, are randomly assigned to one of two study arms. The CHCs are blinded to study arm assignment. Intervention arm participants receive the brochure and CHA intervention while participants assigned to the control group receive only the brochure. All participants receive a stool-based CRC screening test from their health center, and the primary outcome is the completion of the screening test at 12 months. Secondary objectives are to estimate the effect of the intervention on mediating factors, explore the effect of moderating factors, and perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of the CHA intervention. DISCUSSION: The TUNE-UP study will enhance understanding about CRC screening in African Americans obtaining primary health care through CHCs and is one of the very few studies to examine a CHA intervention in this context. A better understanding of the mechanisms by which the intervention affects patient beliefs and behaviors will help focus future research while the exploratory cost-effectiveness analysis will inform CHCs’ decision-making about implementing a CHA program to increase screening and reduce cancer health disparities. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.govNCT04304001. Registered on March 11, 2020.
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spelling pubmed-88453722022-02-16 Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial Luque, John S. Matthew, Olayemi O. Jackson, Deloria R. Vargas, Matthew A. Austin, Tifini Ali, Askal Kiros, Gebre E. Harris, Cynthia M. Tawk, Rima Gwede, Clement K. Wallace, Kristin Jean-Pierre, Pascal Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most deadly cancer affecting US adults and is also one of the most treatable cancers when detected at an earlier clinical stage of disease through screening. CRC health disparities experienced by African Americans are due in part to the later stage of diagnosis, suggesting the importance of improving African Americans’ CRC screening participation. The national Screen to Save (S2S) initiative employs a community health educator to deliver CRC screening education which can be tailored for specific populations, and such approaches have increased CRC screening rates in disadvantaged and racial/ethnic minority populations. METHODS/DESIGN: In this trial emphasizing stool-based CRC screening, focus groups informed the development of an adapted S2S video and brochure tailored for African Americans and identified preferred motivational text messages for a multicomponent community health advisor (CHA) intervention. A CHA hired from the community was trained to deliver a 6-week CRC educational intervention consisting of an initial face-to-face meeting followed by 5 weeks of calls and texts. Interested eligible persons are enrolled primarily through recruitment by two partnering community health centers (CHCs) and secondarily through various outreach channels and, after consenting and completing a baseline survey, are randomly assigned to one of two study arms. The CHCs are blinded to study arm assignment. Intervention arm participants receive the brochure and CHA intervention while participants assigned to the control group receive only the brochure. All participants receive a stool-based CRC screening test from their health center, and the primary outcome is the completion of the screening test at 12 months. Secondary objectives are to estimate the effect of the intervention on mediating factors, explore the effect of moderating factors, and perform a cost-effectiveness analysis of the CHA intervention. DISCUSSION: The TUNE-UP study will enhance understanding about CRC screening in African Americans obtaining primary health care through CHCs and is one of the very few studies to examine a CHA intervention in this context. A better understanding of the mechanisms by which the intervention affects patient beliefs and behaviors will help focus future research while the exploratory cost-effectiveness analysis will inform CHCs’ decision-making about implementing a CHA program to increase screening and reduce cancer health disparities. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.govNCT04304001. Registered on March 11, 2020. BioMed Central 2022-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8845372/ /pubmed/35168640 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06076-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Matthew, Olayemi O.
Jackson, Deloria R.
Vargas, Matthew A.
Austin, Tifini
Ali, Askal
Kiros, Gebre E.
Harris, Cynthia M.
Tawk, Rima
Gwede, Clement K.
Wallace, Kristin
Jean-Pierre, Pascal
Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title_full Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title_fullStr Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title_short Assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an African American safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
title_sort assessing the effectiveness of a community health advisor plus screen to save educational intervention on stool-based testing adherence in an african american safety net clinic population: study protocol for a randomized pragmatic trial
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8845372/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35168640
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06076-4
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