Trial reportPsycho-oncology2016
School-based brief psycho-educational intervention to raise adolescent cancer awareness and address barriers to medical help-seeking about cancer: a cluster randomised controlled trial.
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- Cancer awareness among adolescents in second-level education: a mixed methods systematic review.Health education research · 2025Pooled it
- Characteristics and practices of school-based cluster randomised controlled trials for improving health outcomes in pupils in the United Kingdom: a methodological systematic review.BMC medical research methodology · 2021Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Interventional Cancer Education Programs for School Students Aged 8-19 Years: a Systematic Review.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2021Pooled it
- School-based brief psycho-educational intervention to raise adolescent cancer awareness and address barriers to medical help-seeking about cancer: a cluster randomised controlled trial.Psycho-oncology · 2016Trial
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- From knowledge to action: strengthening cancer prevention knowledge in schools among adolescents in Germany.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Integrating Cancer Education Into High School Curricula.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2026Review
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- I Choose Health. It is OncoLogical!-Informative and Educational Campaign Dedicated to the High School Students in Poland.Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of an Educational Program on Awareness of Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Symptoms, and Barriers to Seeking Medical Help among Adolescent Omani School Students-An Interventional Study.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2023Article
- Investigating the associations of the illness representations of gambling disorder with superstitious and responsible gambling.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Adolescents and young adults' (AYA) views on their cancer knowledge prior to diagnosis: Findings from a qualitative study involving AYA receiving cancer care.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2021Article
- Promoting sunscreen use and skin self-examination to improve early detection and prevent skin cancer: quasi-experimental trial of an adolescent psycho-educational intervention.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Implementation of a School-Based Educational Program to Increase Breast Cancer Awareness and Promote Intergenerational Transmission of Knowledge in a Rural Mexican Community.The oncologist · 2017Article
- Development and Validation of Social-Cognitive Theory Based Oral Cancer Awareness Assessment Tool for Adolescents.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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8 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectivesRaising cancer awareness and addressing barriers to help-seeking may improve early diagnosis. The aim was to assess whether a psycho-educational intervention increased adolescents' cancer awareness and addressed help-seeking barriers.
methodsThis was a cluster randomised controlled trial involving 2173 adolescents in 20 schools. The intervention was a 50-min presentation delivered by a member of Teenage Cancer Trust's (UK charity) education team. Schools were stratified by deprivation and roll size and randomly allocated to intervention/control conditions within these strata. Outcome measures were the number of cancer warning signs and cancer risk factors recognised, help-seeking barriers endorsed and cancer communication. Communication self-efficacy and intervention fidelity were also assessed.
resultsRegression models showed significant differences in the number of cancer warning signs and risk factors recognised between intervention and control groups. In intervention schools, the greatest increases in recognition of cancer warning signs at 6-month follow-up were for unexplained weight loss (from 44.2% to 62.0%) and change in the appearance of a mole (from 46.3% to 70.7%), up by 17.8% and 24.4%, respectively. Greatest increases in recognition of cancer risk factors were for getting sunburnt more than once as a child (from 41.0% to 57.6%) and being overweight (from 42.7% to 55.5%), up by 16.6% and 12.8%, respectively. Regression models showed that adolescents in intervention schools were 2.7 times more likely to discuss cancer at 2-week follow-up compared with the control group. No differences in endorsement of barriers to help-seeking were observed.
conclusionsSchool-based brief psycho-educational interventions are easy to deliver, require little resource and improve cancer awareness. © 2015 The Authors. Psycho-Oncology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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