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NCT Number: NCT03539991

Developing an eLearning Program in Helping Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Cancer Care Providers During Tobacco Use Counselling

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Health Care Provider

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Hosptial de Cancer de Barretos, Barretos, São Paulo, Brazil

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About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Internet-Based Intervention

Other

Complete online courses

Meeting

Other

Participate in virtual meetings

Survey Administration

Other

Ancillary studies

Primary outcomes

  1. Recruitment and retention rates

    Time frame: 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.

  2. Linguistically/culturally tailored mobile tool

    Time frame: 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 outcomes

  1. Gains in participants' competencies in providing smoking cessation assistance to cancer patients

    Time frame: 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Other

Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

SWOG Tobacco Program for the Oncology Practice

Important dates

Study start
2018
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
May 30, 2018
Registry last updated
Sep 5, 2021

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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