Men's Prostate Awareness Church Training (NCT02131779) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedNot Applicable
Men's Prostate Awareness Church Training
United States536 participantsStarted 2012-02
Plain-language summary
The objective of the Prostate Cancer Education in African American Churches project is to develop and evaluate a spiritually-based educational intervention for Informed Decision Making (IDM) for prostate cancer screening to be delivered to African American men in church settings.
Who can participate
Age range40 Years – 69 Years
SexALL
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Inclusion Criteria:
Male Study Participants
* African American Men church attending men
* 40-69 years of age Advisory Panel
* Knowledgeable about the community where the intervention is implemented, adults ages 21+, review materials and provide input for intervention development and program implementation Pastors
* Willing to conduct the intervention at church
* Support the program
* Designate two individuals to serve as community health advisors
* Identify a ministry in the church which will champion the project Community Health Advisors
* attend a 6 hour training and 1 hour certification
* assist in recruitment of study participants
* recruit up to 24 men
* recruit up to 24 females to attend sessions with men in 10 Health Partner Churches
* prepare and conduct the 4 part workshop series
* serve as liaisons between the project and study team Workshop Participants
* self-identified, African American men (40-69), Health Partners --over 18 years of age, able to complete self-administered paper-and-pencil surveys
Exclusion Criteria:
* Workshop participants with a history of prostate cancer, do not meet the age criteria
What they're measuring
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Informed Decision making for Prostate Cancer Screening