The Queens Library HealthLink Project

Multiple Diseases Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Queens Library HealthLink Project

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00579696
• Other study ID #: 07-027
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 20, 2007
• Last updated: December 16, 2015
• Start date: February 2007
• Est. completion date: January 2009

Study information

• Verified date: December 2015
• Source: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

To determine whether community based participatory action research leads to more effective cancer prevention and control in underserved communities compared to traditional, "topdown" programs.

Description:

To examine how communities engage in the participatory research process, in order to develop locally tailored initiatives for cancer education, prevention and control.

To examine whether and how long program effects are sustained after completion of the intensive collaborative program planning intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 2789
• Est. completion date: January 2009
• Est. primary completion date: January 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• This project is intended to reach participants over the age of 18 within each sampled neighborhood, inclusive of both women and men of all ethnic and language groups. As such, our outcomes assessment strategy is similarly inclusive. Specific sources of data and sampling strategies for different measures are detailed in Section 7, as part of our assessment plan.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Individuals younger than 18 years of age will not be included in this study.

Study Design

Observational Model: Ecologic or Community, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Multiple Diseases

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center	New York	New York

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	American Cancer Society, Inc., Caritas Health Care, Inc, QUEENS BOROUGH PUBLIC LIBRARY (QBPL), Queens Health Network

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	To determine whether community-based participatory action research leads to more effective cancer prevention and control in underserved communities compared to traditional, "topdown" programs.		5 years	No
Secondary	To examine how communities engage in the participatory research process, in order to develop locally tailored initiatives for cancer education, prevention and control.		5 years	No

External Links

•   Memorial Sloan-Kettering Web Site