Enhancing Oral Cancer Awareness
This study aims to improve understanding of oral cancer and its prevention among African American adults. Researchers are comparing two ways to share information: traditional educational handouts and an AI-powered chatbot. You would receive either the handouts or interact with the chatbot, which provides information and answers questions about oral health and cancer prevention. The study wants to see which method is better at increasing your knowledge and changing your behavior related to oral cancer. To join, you must be an African American adult, at least 18 years old, and able to read, speak, and write in English. The study plans to enroll 60 participants, but its current recruitment status is unclear.
- Study design
- This interventional study plans to enroll 60 participants. It compares two different ways of providing information: traditional handouts versus an AI-powered chatbot.
- What's involved
- You would receive educational handouts or interact with an AI-powered chatbot. Your knowledge and behavior will be evaluated at the beginning and again after 3 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for 3 months after the intervention.
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Enhancing Oral Cancer Awareness
At a glance
Conditions
Where it's being run
1 sites across 1 statesStudy leadership
- Tamas Gal, Ph.D · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Virginia Commonwealth University
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What this trial measures
- Compare participant retention rates between the AI-powered tool arm and the conventional educational material armBaseline, and post intervention (3 months)
Compare the percentage of participants that continued the intervention to the participants that continued using the active comparator to measure intervention feasibility.
- Evaluate the impact of AI-powered chatbot interactions versus traditional educational handouts on knowledge and behaviorBaseline, and post intervention (3 months)
Assess the effectiveness of the interventions by baseline and post intervention surveys assessing oral cancer knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors utilizing a questionnaire based on the Health Belief Model. The questionnaire will include scales measuring knowledge about oral cancer, its causes, risk factors, signs, preventive methods. Each question will have one correct answer, and the final score at baseline and after the intervention will be compared. Based on previous literature, a score of 60-70% can indicate adequate knowledge about a disease, but the primary goal of the outcome is to compare improvement in knowledge between control vs intervention arms.
- Investigate socio-demographic factors that affect oral cancer knowledge in the African American populationBaseline, and post intervention (3 months)
Pre-intervention surveys will include questions assessing socio-demographic variables of the participants. These variables will serve as covariates in the analysis to measure their effects on knowledge and attitudes. The effect of demographic factors affecting healthcare service utilization, such as education attainment and health insurance status, on knowledge about and attitude toward oral cancer will be measured through regression analysis to investigate their impact on oral cancer awareness and prevention efforts.
- Evaluate the acceptability of AI-powered chatbot interactions versus traditional educational handoutsBaseline, and post intervention (3 months)
Assess the acceptability of the interventions by baseline and post intervention surveys assessing satisfaction, appropriateness, ease of use, and acceptability of the interventions to improve oral cancer knowledge. Satisfaction and acceptability will be measured through a set of questions in the post-intervention questionnaire with 5 Likert scale-based responses ranging from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree", and the final score will be compared between arms.