e-health training program: 1. Health letters, 44 issues of 90SecondFire Cancer health letters delivered twice a week during six months to firefighters by text or email
2. A problem-solving asynchronous chat room which encourages mutual support and exchange of ideas via a closed asynchronous bulletin board for peer-to-peer support
3. A brief 45-minute pre-recorded online course; it is intended as a summative exercise rather than providing new information.
Study summary
The goal of this two-arm, Cluster Randomized Trial is to evaluate an e-health training program for volunteer firefighters to reduce their risk of exposures to carcinogens and to increase their understanding and intentions of behavior towards cancer prevention. One arm will receive an online e-health intervention for six months and the other arm will be considered as a waitlist control group which will be placed on a waitlist and receive the online treatment program some months later.
The project aims to evaluate the firefighters by measurement of current behavior, perceived importance, future behavioral intentions and perceived barriers for implementing decontamination behaviors at baseline, after the intervention and after 3-month follow-up before and after the intervention.
The intervention consists of three components:
1. a novel health information strategy, 90SecondFire Cancer health letters
2. a brief on-line course
3. a problem-solving asynchronous bulletin board to mobilize existing knowledge
Eligibility
Sex
ALL
Min age
—
Max age
—
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion Criteria:
Departments will be screened to meet the following criteria
1. Be a Volunteer Department
2. Be located in Canada
3. Consent to participate in the study via the Chief or delegate
Participant in the CRT study must meet all the following criteria to be eligible to proceed with the study:
1. Be a volunteer firefighter
2. Working for an all-volunteer fire department that has joined the study
3. Live in Canada
4. Has access to internet
5. Be able to read, write and understand English or French
6. Consent to participate in the study
Exclusion Criteria:
The exclusion for Departments
1. Not a volunteer Department in other words to be a composite department with some volunteers and some career fire fighters or a department that has not joined the study
2. Not located in Canada
3. Not Consent to be in the study via the Chief or delegate
Any of the following criteria will exclude individuals from proceeding to consent:
1. NOT a volunteer firefighter
2. Working for a composite department with some volunteers and some career fire fighters or a department that has not joined the study
3. Does NOT live in Canada
4. Does not have access to internet
5. Is NOT able to read, write and understand English or French
6. Does NOT consent to participate in the study
Primary outcome measure(s)
Volunteer Firefighters' Intention to engage in reducing exposure and undertaking decontamination behaviour — Baseline, After 6 month intervention and 3-month follow-up In order to measure the changes in firefighter's intention during the study, the data will be collected by an online survey: Firefighter Exposure to Carcinogens Scale. The dimensions will be rated on a Likert scale. min :0 Max 4 ; The higher score does not mean a better outcome.
This page summarises publicly available registry data for informational purposes — not medical advice. Eligibility is determined by each study team; patients should discuss participation with their clinician.
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