Clinical trial · Interventional
Cancer Prevention for Young Rural Adults
#4Corners4Health: A Social Media Cancer Prevention Program for Rural Emerging Adults
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Young adults aged 18-26 engage in a number of behaviors that increase their risk of developing cancer later in life including sedentary lifestyles, unhealthy eating, nicotine produce us, heavy drinking of alcohol, increased UV exposure, and incomplete uptake of HPV vaccination. A multi-risk factor campaign will be developed to reduce these cancer risk behaviors and delivered to young adults over social media, a popular channel that can reach nearly all young adults. The campaign will be evaluated for effectiveness in a rigorous randomized trial with measures of moderate to vigorous physical activity, healthy eating patterns, nicotine product use, alcohol intake, sunburn prevalence, and HPV vaccination uptake.
Conditions
Conditions (1)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer | Malignant Neoplasm | ALIAS | 0.90 |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Corners Rural Health Cancer Prevention | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (1)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- 4 Corners Rural Cancer Prevention
- description
- Four separate Facebook groups, which provide information via posts within the private groups about cancer risk factors (e.g. reducing alcohol consumption, tobacco use cessation, increasing physical activity), behavioral skills to reduce them, benefits of, social support for, and ways to reduce social/financial costs of cancer prevention, and advice from health care providers to decrease barriers. Posts will seek to improve self- and response-efficacy and perceived risk, and link cancer prevention to personal goals.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: 4 Corners Rural Health Cancer Prevention
Primary outcomes (24)
- measure
- Physical Activity
- timeFrame
- Baseline
- description
- Participants will self-report minutes per week of moderate to vigorous physical activity.
- measure
- Physical Activity
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 18 Years
- Maximum age
- 26 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged 18-26 years old * Resides in a county coded as RUCC 4-9 in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, or Utah * Able to speak and read English * Has regular social media engagement * Accepts screening call from study staff * Consents to participate Exclusion Criteria: * Participated in community engagement activities * Cannot speak and read English * Has low or no social media engagement * Does not accept a screening call from study staff * Does not consent to participate * Does not give permission for engagement data to be extracted from Facebook private group * If biologically female, currently pregnant
References
Publications (2)
- DERIVEDWarner EL, Kinsey A, Walkosz BJ, Berteletti J, Nuss K, Small A, Woodall WG, Kepka D, Taren D, Skiba MB, Guest DD, Blair CK, Gordon JS, Wetter DW, Borrayo EA, Henry KL, Sussman AL, Buller DB. A Web-Based Cancer Prevention Intervention for Rural Emerging Adults: Mixed Methods Development and Pilot-Testing Study. J Med Internet Res. 2026 Jan 8;28:e80803. doi: 10.2196/80803. PMID 41505184
- DERIVEDBuller DB, Sussman AL, Thomson CA, Kepka D, Taren D, Henry KL, Warner EL, Walkosz BJ, Woodall WG, Nuss K, Blair CK, Guest DD, Borrayo EA, Gordon JS, Hatcher J, Wetter DW, Kinsey A, Jones CF, Yung AK, Christini K, Berteletti J, Torres JA, Barraza Perez EY, Small A. #4Corners4Health Social Media Cancer Prevention Campaign for Emerging Adults: Protocol for a Randomized Stepped-Wedge Trial. JMIR Res Protoc. 2024 Feb 22;13:e50392. doi: 10.2196/50392. PMID 38386396