Sun Safe Together: Preventing Skin Cancer in Teens
This study, "Sun Safe Together," is testing a digital program to help teenagers and their parents prevent skin cancer. Teens will receive sun safety and general health messages through text messages (MMS) for 12 weeks. Parents will join a private Facebook group for 12 weeks, where they'll see content about teen sun safety and general health. The study wants to see if it's possible to recruit parent-teen pairs and if they find the program helpful and engaging. You can join if you are a teen aged 13-17 and live with a parent, and you've had a sunburn or used an indoor tanning bed in the last year, or don't protect yourself well from the sun. The study is currently unclear about its recruitment status.
- Study design
- This is a single-arm study, meaning all 104 participants will receive the intervention. It is a pilot trial to test the program's feasibility and acceptability.
- What's involved
- Teens will receive MMS messages for 12 weeks. Parents will participate in a private Facebook group for 12 weeks. Engagement will be measured for 3 months, and retention for 3 and 6 months.
- Compensation
- Not stated in the trial record.
- Follow-up
- Participants will be followed for engagement for 3 months and for retention at 3 and 6 months after the intervention.
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Sun Safe Together: A Digital Skin Cancer Prevention Intervention for Adolescents and Their Parents
At a glance
Conditions
NCT07681791
Where you'd take part
This study runs at 1 site. They're the same protocol — you choose where, and that choice sets who your contact draft is addressed to.
Rutgers Cancer Institute
New Brunswick, New Jerseystudy coordinator listed
Recruiting
Sites open and close at different times, so the status above is per site — it can differ from the study's overall status.
Study leadership
- Carolyn Heckman, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Katie A Devine, PhD · PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR · Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Inclusion
What this trial measures
- Feasibility of recruitmentBaseline
Feasibility of recruitment will be assessed by the proportion of eligible parent-teen dyads that enroll in the study
- Acceptability of MMS interventionImmediately after the intervention
Items were adapted from the Acceptability of Intervention and Feasibility of Intervention Measures to obtain participant feedback about the acceptability, feasibility, ease of use, and impact of the intervention. Individual items are rated on a 5-point likert scale from (1) Completely Disagree to (5) Completely Agree. Higher scores indicated greater acceptability.
- Engagement with MMS intervention3-months
Proportion of messages viewed will be calculated to describe engagement.
- Feasibility of Outcome Data Collection - 7-Day DiariesBaseline, 3-months, 6-months
Proportion of teens who complete 7-day diaries will be calculated.
- Feasibility of Outcome Data Collection - UVR DosimeterBaseline, 6 months
Proportion of teens who return UVR dosimeter with usable data will be calculated.
- Retention3-months, 6-months
Proportion of enrolled teens who complete surveys at 3- and 6-months will be calculated.