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Developing and Testing a Mobile Health Intervention to Promote Sun Protection Behaviors and Skin Examination Among Hispanics

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

Hypothesis: More than 80% of the participants (n=40) will complete the intervention at three month (intervention completion) and the six month follow-up (retention rate as feasibility). More than 70% of the participants will report high overall study satisfaction (acceptability) with the intervention and study. This pre-pilot will inform intervention and procedural refinements for the pilot. Hypothesis: Participants who receive the intervention (n=57) will report more skin cancer-related preventive behaviors (e.g., mean of summed score of sun protection behaviors such as use of sunscreen, etc.) at three month and six month follow-up compared to those in the control condition (n=57, who will receive general information about physical activity and nutrition).

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Minimum Age: 18
Maximum Age: 100
Healthy Volunteers: t
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• Self-report as Hispanics

• 18 years or older

• No personal history of skin cancer

• Report more than one skin cancer risk factor

• Do not engage in sufficient sun protection behaviors

• Have not conducted a SSE in the past three months

• Own a smartphone and will be willing to use WhatsApp

Locations
United States
New Jersey
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey
RECRUITING
New Brunswick
Contact Information
Primary
Zhaomeng Niu, PhD
zhaomeng.niu@rutgers.edu
509-339-3076
Time Frame
Start Date: 2025-04-20
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-10-31
Participants
Target number of participants: 114
Treatments
Experimental: Mobile skin cancer intervention
Conduct a pilot of the refined intervention among Hispanics to evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the user-centered mobile skin cancer intervention program.
Active_comparator: Control group: physical activity and nutrition information
Participants will complete a baseline survey first; and then they will be randomly assigned into either the intervention group or the control group. After the random allocation participants will receive instructions on how to use WhatsApp and then the intervention. The participants will receive WhatsApp messages about skin cancer for three months with optimal frequencies determined by prior aims and complete a post-intervention survey which contains the same questions in the pre-survey. The participants will be contacted at six months after the baseline survey to complete another survey similar to the post-intervention survey.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Leads: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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