Recruiting

Mobile Health Intervention

Sponsor:

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Code:

NCT05389332

Conditions

Cancer of Skin

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Hispanics Skin Cancer intervention

Control group: physical activity and nutrition for Hispanics

Study Details

Brief summary:

Hypothesis: More than 80% of the participants (n=40) will complete the intervention at three month (intervention completion) and the six month follow-up (retention rate as feasibility). More than 70% of the participants will report high overall study satisfaction (acceptability) with the intervention and study.

This pre-pilot will inform intervention and procedural refinements for the pilot.

Hypothesis: Participants who receive the intervention (n=57) will report more skin cancer-related preventive behaviors (e.g., mean of summed score of sun protection behaviors such as use of sunscreen, etc.) at three month and six month follow-up compared to those in the control condition (n=57, who will receive general information about physical activity and nutrition).

Conditions

Cancer of Skin

Study ID

NCT05389332

Start date

Apr 20, 2025

Status verified date

Dec, 2025

Completion date

Oct 31, 2026

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct 31, 2026

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Self-report as Hispanics
  • 18 years or older
  • No personal history of skin cancer
  • Report more than one skin cancer risk factor
  • Do not engage in sufficient sun protection behaviors
  • Have not conducted a SSE in the past three months
  • Own a smartphone and will be willing to use WhatsApp

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Currently being treated for melanoma or nonmelanoma skin cancer

Study Design

Enrollment

114 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Prevention

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

experimental: Mobile skin cancer intervention

Conduct a pilot of the refined intervention among Hispanics to evaluate the preliminary efficacy of the user-centered mobile skin cancer intervention program.

active comparator: Control group: physical activity and nutrition information

Participants will complete a baseline survey first; and then they will be randomly assigned into either the intervention group or the control group. After the random allocation participants will receive instructions on how to use WhatsApp and then the intervention. The participants will receive WhatsApp messages about skin cancer for three months with optimal frequencies determined by prior aims and complete a post-intervention survey which contains the same questions in the pre-survey. The participants will be contacted at six months after the baseline survey to complete another survey similar to the post-intervention survey.

Interventions

Hispanics Skin Cancer intervention

With the insights from the community, the investigators will then develop the mobile intervention targeting Hispanics at risk for skin cancer to promote sun protection and SSE and get feedback to optimize the intervention. After the random allocation participants will receive instructions on how to use WhatsApp and then the intervention. They will receive WhatsApp messages about skin cancer for three months with optimal frequencies determined by prior aims and complete a post-intervention survey which contains the same questions in the pre-survey. The pilot RCT will be conducted around the spring/summer of Year four of the R00 when UVR is generally the highest in the US. The participants will be contacted at six months after the baseline survey to complete another survey similar to the post-intervention survey.

Control group: physical activity and nutrition for Hispanics

Content will be developed from established websites such as CDC's Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity. We selected these topics because they are also of concern among Hispanics and provide an unrelated attention control.

Primary outcome measure

  • Sun protection behavior by self-report [ Time Frame: The change is being assessed at baseline, three month and six month follow-up intervals ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Zhaomeng Niu, PhD

509-339-3076zhaomeng.niu@rutgers.edu

Locations

Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

Recruiting

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, 08901

Contacts

Zhaomeng Niu, PhD

732-235-7921zhaomeng.niu@rutgers.edu

More Information

Sponsor

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Last update posted

Dec 16, 2025

Last verified

Dec, 2025

Keywords

  • Mobile health

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-09. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey on 2025-12-16.