Health Care Provider
Conditions
Brief summary
This trial aims to develop an electronic learning (eLearning) program and mobile tool for Spanish and Portuguese speaking cancer care providers to use in tobacco counseling of their patients. This study may provide information for the design and implementation of tobacco cessation training programs directed to this group of professionals in low- and middle-income countries for the Latin American region.
Detailed description
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To develop and test the feasibility of an eLearning program on brief tobacco counseling specifically designed for Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking cancer care providers. II. To linguistically/culturally tailor and test a mobile tool designed to assist in providing effective tobacco counseling and treatment. OUTLINE: Participants complete an online course focusing on different aspects of tobacco prevention and cessation over 1 hour each per week for 4 weeks. They also engage in 6 virtual meetings over 1 hour about tobacco use once per month. After completion of study, participants are followed up at 3 and 6 months.
Interventions
OTHERInternet-Based Intervention
Complete online courses
OTHERMeeting
Participate in virtual meetings
OTHERSurvey Administration
Ancillary studies
Sponsors
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Be a cancer care provider (CCP) working at one of the above cancer centers * Have direct contact with cancer patients * Have access to the internet during the 4-hour online course and at least once per month to participate in post-training virtual meetings, discussion board postings, email, and periodic audio chat conferences * Have access to a computer, tablet, or smartphone (iPhone or Android) with built-in camera and microphone * Have basic proficiency in the use of a computer, including word processing and email * Commit to the STOP Program by completing the online course and sharing lessons learned with other CCPs at the monthly virtual meetings that will take place during the 6 months following course completion
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment and retention rates | Up to 6 months | Will be used as key parameters for assessing the feasibility of the eLearning program. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test will be used to compare scores obtained in the pre- and post-tests of the eLearning program. Effect sizes will be computed as the absolute value of the difference between the post-test (T2, T3, and T4) and pre-test (T1) scores divided by the mean of the standard deviations for each. |
| Linguistically/culturally tailored mobile tool | Up to 6 months | Computing the System Usability Scale (SUS) scores in the final assessment will allow our research team to analyze cancer care provider's (CCPs) experience of using the tool. A descriptive analysis to compute the SUS score will be performed and later converted to percentile ranks. A percentile rank of 75% will indicate that the tool has high perceived usability. All statistical analyses will be performed using SPSS Statistics version 23 (International Business Machines Corporation). |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Gains in participants' competencies in providing smoking cessation assistance to cancer patients | Baseline up to 6 months | Will be assessed by comparing pre- and post-test responses to the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer survey. Item distributions, mean, median, standard deviation, minimum, maximum, and skewness will be explored. Skewness values between -1 and 1 will be considered acceptable. To examine reliability and internal consistency of each of the items assessing cancer care providers CCPs' competency for providing brief tobacco counseling, Cronbach's alphas will be calculated. |
Countries
Brazil, Colombia, Peru
Outcome results
None listed