Promoting Organizational Capacity to Implement Cancer Control Programs Among Latino Churches (CRUZA)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01740219 |
Recruitment Status :
Completed
First Posted : December 4, 2012
Last Update Posted : June 20, 2019
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Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Cancer | Behavioral: Capacity Enhancement Behavioral: Standard Dissemination | Not Applicable |
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 348 participants |
Allocation: | Randomized |
Intervention Model: | Parallel Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | Promoting the Utilization of Cancer Early Detection Methods Among Latinos in Church: a Faith-based Approach |
Actual Study Start Date : | September 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | September 2013 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | September 2013 |
Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: Capacity Enhancement |
Behavioral: Capacity Enhancement
Churches in the Capacity Enhancement intervention will be invited to work with CRUZA staff over the course of a three month intervention to implement health promotion activities in their church and participate in capacity-building educational workshops. Participants may also receive technical assistance from Health Educators in order to implement their cancer education activities. |
Active Comparator: Standard Dissemination |
Behavioral: Standard Dissemination
Churches in the Standard Dissemination arm will receive program materials with information about cancer prevention/early detection and health resources. |
- Implementation [ Time Frame: 3-months ]Number and types of interventions offered

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 21 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | Yes |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Parishes eligible for the Randomized trial are those that are: Roman Catholic, located in Massachusetts, offer religious services in Spanish, and have taken part in the organizational survey.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Not Roman Catholic, not located in Massachusetts, don't offer religious services in Spanish, and have not participated in the organizational survey.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01740219
United States, Massachusetts | |
University of Massachusetts Boston | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02125 | |
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02215 | |
Tufts University | |
Medford, Massachusetts, United States, 02144 |
Principal Investigator: | Jennifer D Allen, ScD | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | |
Principal Investigator: | Maria Idali Torres, PhD | University of Massachusetts, Boston |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Jennifer Allen, Principal Investigator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01740219 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
19674 |
First Posted: | December 4, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 20, 2019 |
Last Verified: | June 2019 |
Health promotion Religion and medicine Hispanic Americans Randomized controlled trial Program evaluation Neoplasms/prevention & control |
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