Digital Self-Management and Peer Mentoring Intervention

Part of paid clinical trials in Los Angeles, California.

Sponsor
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Study ID
NCT06763770
Status
Enrolling By Invitation

Conditions

  • Cancer
  • Pediatric Cancer Survivor
  • Survivorship

Eligibility Criteria

Sex
ALL
Age
18 Years - 25 Years
Healthy Volunteers
Not accepted

Interventions

  • Managing Your Health (MYH) — BEHAVIORAL
    The Managing Your Health intervention consists of six weekly videoconference calls with a peer mentor and five self-management educational modules within a mobile application. The first call is to get to know each other, share survivorship stories, identify self-management strengths and weaknesses, and select goals for participation in the intervention. The remaining five weekly calls cover a self-management topic each week, including understanding your survivorship care plan, navigating the healthcare system and insurance, managing the emotional aspects of survivorship, negotiating family and significant other involvement in care, and engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors.
  • The Usual Care + Educational Control — BEHAVIORAL
    The Usual Care + Educational Control group will receive weekly emails with links to the Health Links developed by the Children's Oncology Group for use in survivorship care. Access to these Health Links reflects the current state of clinical care available to survivors. These Health Links were developed as patient education materials to cover relevant self-management and survivorship care topics. The weekly messages will align with the content of the modules from Managing Your Health to provide similar information, including Introduction to Long-Term Follow-Up (Module 1), Finding and Paying for Healthcare (Module 2), Emotional Issues (Modules 3 and 4), Educational Issues, Diet and Physical Activity, Skin Health, Reducing the Risk of Second Cancers, and Male/Female Health Issues (Module 5).

Study Details

This study tests how helpful a digital self-management and peer mentoring program is to young adult survivors of childhood cancer to improve their ability to manage their survivorship care as they transition from pediatric to adult-oriented follow-up care. Survivors require lifelong "risk-based" follow-up care based on the treatment they received to identify and treat late health effects. The transition from pediatric to adult follow-up care is a critical period when many survivors are lost to follow-up. Barriers to successful transition and engagement in care include poor knowledge of cancer history, low healthcare self-efficacy, poor self-management skills, low health literacy, and access issues such as financial hardship, insurance, and distance from cancer center. The "Managing Your Health" digital self-management and peer mentoring program aims to address these gaps and improve survivorship care self-management. Improvements in healthcare self-management are necessary to keep young adult survivors engaged in recommended health care, improve their quality of life, and promote optimal health.

Key Dates

Start date
Mar 4, 2025
Status verified
Apr 2026
Primary completion
Jan 31, 2028
Completion
Jul 31, 2028

Study Design

Enrollment
300 participants (estimated)
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Arms

  • Experimental: Managing Your Health (MYH)
    The Managing Your Health app + Peer Mentoring Intervention
  • Active Comparator: Usual Care + Educational Control
    The Usual Care + Educational Control

Primary Outcome Measure

Self-Management behaviors [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3 months, 12 months ]

Locations (2)

FacilityCityStateZIPSite coordinators
University of South CaliforniaLos AngelesCalifornia900339239-
Rutgers Cancer InstituteNew BrunswickNew Jersey089011914-

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