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Study Summary
No. 2007-0128:.......Cancer Prevention......Sara Strom......Epidemiology
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Study Summary Title
Study Summary
Number:		2007-0128
Study Title:The Role of Family History and Culture in Communal Coping within Mexican-American Families
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Physician New Patient Referral
Name:Sara StromPatients Call:800-392-1611 (in U.S.A.) 713-792-6161 (outside U.S.A.)
Dept:EpidemiologyReferring MD
Call:		800-392-1611 (in U.S.A.) 713-792-6161 (outside U.S.A.)
Phone:713-563-9957
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General Information
Disease Group:Cancer PreventionSupported By:National Human Genome Research Institute, Social and Behavioral Research Branch
Phase of Study:N/AReturn
Visit:		N/A
Treatment
Agents:		NoneHome Care:N/A
Treatment Loc:Only at MDACC
Estimated
Length of Stay
in Houston:		N/A
Description/
Intervention:		Unavailable
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Study Objectives / Outcomes
This project will investigate whether a family-centered approach to providing personalized risk feedback based on family health history encourages the communication among family members of family risk for common, complex disease, the development of shared appraisals of risk, and the promotion of cooperative strategies to reduce risk through screening and lifestyle changes. Additionally, we will investigate whether the content of feedback affects participants' beliefs about the causes and controllability of disease and whether these beliefs impact the development of cooperative strategies to adopt health promoting behaviors. The influence of participants' cognitive, familial, and cultural context on these processes will also be examined. Specific aims that will be addressed within this project include:

1. Examine whether a family-centered feedback approach, as compared to an individual-focused approach, encourages communications regarding family risk and the development of strategies (i.e. whether a family member encourages screening) to adopt health promoting behaviors within the household.
    2. Investigate whether the type of personalized risk feedback (predisposing or predisposing plus enabling) affects family members' beliefs about the causes and controllability of disease onset and perceived risk for disease.

    3. Investigate whether shared perceptions of risk and beliefs about disease mediates the relationship between communications about family risk and the development of cooperative strategies (i.e. whether a family member encourages screening) to adopt health promoting behaviors within the family.
      4. Understand how culture and the familial social system facilitate or impede communications regarding family health history and risk for disease, and the development of strategies (i.e. whether a family member encourages screening) to adopt health promoting behaviors.
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      Study Status Information
      Study Activation / Registration Date:08/20/2007
      IRB Review and Approval Date:08/20/2007
      Study Type:Behavioral
      Recruitment Status:Closed
      Projected Accrual:160 Households
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      Enrollment Eligibility
      If you do not meet the enrollment eligibility, there may be other treatment options for you. Please Contact the Referral Office for more information.
      Inclusion Criteria:1) • Member household of existing population-based cohort of Mexican-American households recruited by the Department of Epidemiology at UTMDACC. The existing population based cohort consists of self-identified Mexican-Americans living in predominantly Mexican-American neighborhoods in the Houston area. All individuals in the cohort are 18 years of age or older and had to be able to complete a personal interview.

      2) • Household includes at least three adults (18 to 70 years of age) who are willing to participate in the study, where at least two of the household participants are related biologically and represent differing generations, and additionally in which one household participant is a spouse or partner of another household participant.

      3) • Ability for each participating household member to complete one in-home survey instrument via computerized assessment tool or personal interview and to complete two telephone interviews.

      4) • Ability of all household participants to speak either English or Spanish.
      Exclusion Criteria:1) More than two household members who are unable to complete the baseline questionnaire using a computerized assessment tool.
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      Links
      Registration Number: NCT00469339
      Study Information on Clinical Trials Registry (clinicaltrials.gov)
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      Results

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