Cancer Prevention & Online Technologies

January 10, 2024 updated by: Stanford University
The overall goal of this research is to develop interventions that leverage online technology (e.g. ads, social media) to reduce individuals' skin-cancer-related risk behaviors and ultimately to reduce skin cancer incidence.

Study Overview

Status

Not yet recruiting

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

This research includes three phases:

  1. To better understand the motivators and inhibitors of skin cancer risk behaviors in various populations including use of indoor tanning and outdoor sun exposure;
  2. To develop content messages and images related to skin cancer risk that are resonant with various populations;
  3. To test the relative effectiveness of these messages in reducing likelihood of or actual skin cancer risk behaviors in various populations.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Estimated)

720000

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Contact

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Facebook user between the age of 18 and 65
  • Self-identifies as male
  • Profile indicates interest in at least one of the following: LGBT community, LGBT culture, LGBT social movements, Rainbow flag, Gay pride, GAY-friendly, homosexuality

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Failure to meet inclusion criteria

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Prevention Advertisement
Participants will be exposed to prevention videos and images through Facebook Advertising
Other: Prevention video advertisement
Skin Cancer Prevention videos
Other: Prevention images for advertisement
Skin Cancer Prevention images
Active Comparator: No Advertisement
No prevention videos and images will be shown through Facebook Advertising
Other: No Advertisement
No skin cancer prevention videos or images were advertised.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Measure intent to tan
Time Frame: 4 weeks
Intent to tan will be measured by our follow-up survey question. Rates of each response will be compared between experimental groups.
4 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Measure awareness of indoor tanning risk
Time Frame: 4 weeks
Awareness of indoor tanning risk will be measured by our follow-up survey question. Rates of each response will be compared between experimental groups.
4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Stanford University

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Eleni Linos, Stanford University

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Estimated)

May 1, 2024

Primary Completion (Estimated)

November 1, 2024

Study Completion (Estimated)

November 1, 2024

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 19, 2019

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 19, 2019

First Posted (Actual)

August 21, 2019

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

January 11, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 10, 2024

Last Verified

January 1, 2024

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • IRB-50303 (Other Identifier: Stanford-IRB)
  • SKIN0049 (Other Identifier: OnCore)
  • 1DP2CA225433-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?

NO

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

No

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

This information was retrieved directly from the website clinicaltrials.gov without any changes. If you have any requests to change, remove or update your study details, please contact register@clinicaltrials.gov. As soon as a change is implemented on clinicaltrials.gov, this will be updated automatically on our website as well.

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