Representations and Prevention of Cancers in Schools

The main objective is to develop an educational program and to measure the impact on social representations identified as acting in the prevention of cancer. Child should write, draw and speak about cancer signifiance to identify individual conceptions and representations of health and cancer in children aged 9 to 12 years in school.

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Key information

Conditions

Healthy

Age range

9 year–12 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

About this study

The stages are :

Selection of forms
Technique of write and draw and interview by a school nurse
Data analysis

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

Aged between 9 and 12

Exclusion criteria

Boy or Girl ages over 12 years and under 9 years
Children refusal

Treatment and study plan

Write, draw and interview

Other

Child should write, draw cancer signifiance and after, they were interview by a school nurse about cancer signifiance.

Primary outcomes

Number of cancer and health representations in children

Time frame: 60 minutes

Identification of individual cancer and health conceptions and representations in children aged 9 to 12 years in schools

Secondary outcomes

Number of association of cancer and health representations with the ecological deprivation index

Time frame: 60 minutes

Assess whether the prevalence of cancer and health representations is associated with socioeconomic level school zones

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Institut de Cancérologie de la Loire

Other

Registry information

Acronym: RISCOLAIRE

Important dates

Study start: 2012
Primary completion: 2013
Study completion: 2013
First posted: Mar 4, 2015
Registry last updated: Mar 4, 2015

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