Promoting Organizational Capacity to Implement Cancer Control Programs Among Latino Churches

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

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.

Jennifer D. Allen, Rachel C. Shelton, Lindsay Kephart, Lina Jandorf, Sara C. Folta et al. (6 authors)

Implementation Science Communications2020-07-066 citations

10.1186/s43058-020-00052-2

Examining the external validity of the CRUZA study, a randomized trial to promote implementation of evidence-based cancer control programs by faith-based organizations

Jennifer D. Allen, Rachel C. Shelton, Lindsay Kephart, Laura S. Tom, Bryan Leyva et al. (7 authors)

Translational Behavioral Medicine2018-11-295 citations

10.1093/tbm/iby099

Dissemination of evidence-based cancer control interventions among Catholic faith-based organizations: results from the CRUZA randomized trial.

Allen JD, Torres MI, Tom LS, Leyva B, Galeas AV, Ospino H.

2016-05-1815 citations

10.1186/s13012-016-0430-6

Interventions

BEHAVIORALCapacity Enhancement

Churches in the Capacity Enhancement intervention will be invited to work with CRUZA staff over the course of a three month intervention to implement health promotion activities in their church and participate in capacity-building educational workshops. Participants may also receive technical assistance from Health Educators in order to implement their cancer education activities.

BEHAVIORALStandard Dissemination

Churches in the Standard Dissemination arm will receive program materials with information about cancer prevention/early detection and health resources.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

21 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Implementation	3-months	Number and types of interventions offered

Countries

United States

Outcome results

None listed