Targeted Melanoma Detection With Skin Self-Examination During COVID-19 Restricted Physician Access
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Melanoma
In brief
The purpose of this study is to reduce melanoma mortality by improving early detection of melanoma with skin self-examination (SSE) among people who self-identify as being at risk and seek care for a concerning mole. Because women are more likely than men to perform SSE, women who are engaged in health promotion by having a recent screening mammogram are the focus of this research. Self-management of melanoma detection with SSE depends on ready access to dermatologists when a concerning mole is detected. In March 2020, the Illinois stay at home order (COVID-19) prohibited non-essential health care, including screening mammography and dermatology office-based care, and both are expected to remain limited until fall 2020. This submission explores a) the effectiveness of targeted melanoma detection (TMD) among women, who identify their risk of having a melanoma, learn to perform SSE, and perform SSE, and b) the effectiveness of adhesive patch-based home sample collection for genomic analysis to rule out melanoma in moles identified by women (who received the intervention) as concerning will be explored.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT04420273
- Run by
- Northwestern University
- People needed
- 1000
- Starts
- 2020-07-02
- Expected to finish
- 2021-03-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-11-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Adult women (aged 18 and older) with no upper age limit, who had a screening mammogram from January 1, 2019 to February 28, 2020.
- Able to read English
- Vision enough to read a newspaper
- Self-perception of their potential melanoma risk
- Willing to perform SSE either alone or with a skin check partner
- Willing to complete monthly surveys for 3 months and receive monthly text messages to personal mobile phone
- Have home Internet access and phone with ability to take a picture of a mole
- Have access to Federal Express or US Postal Service Express Mail to send mole self-sampling kits
- Willing to allow the research team access to their electronic health record to abstract physician assessment of concerning moles, biopsy results and treatment
- Willing to provide up-to-date email address, mailing address and telephone number
- Inclusion criteria of skin check partner, who may be a man or a woman, to have mole self-sampled
- Male or female over the age of 18 years
- Able to read English
- Vision enough to read a newspaper
You may not qualify if…
- Male
- Female under the age of 18
- Unable to read English
Where it is running
- Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Dermatology — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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