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Disseminating Public Health Evidence to Support State Health Department Prevention of Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases

NCT01978054 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1703

Last updated 2018-07-06

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to identify and evaluate dissemination strategies to promote the uptake of evidence-based cancer and other chronic disease prevention among state-level public health practitioners. Dissemination strategies such as multi-day in-person training workshops and electronic information exchange modalities are hypothesized to associate with improved access and use of public health evidence and organizational supports for program and policy decision making based on evidence-based public health.

Conditions

  • Information Dissemination
  • Evidence-Based Public Health

Interventions

OTHER

Dissemination of public health knowledge

State health department chronic disease units will be involved with developing and choosing dissemination activities to spread public health knowledge and information on population-based public health strategies that have been shown to reduce risk factors for cancer and other chronic diseases. Example of activities include: multi-day in-person training workshops and electronic information exchange modalities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

    collaborator NIH

  • Washington University School of Medicine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ross C Brownson, PhD · Washington University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2018-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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