title: Dissemination of evidence-based cancer control interventions among Catholic faith-based organizations: results from the CRUZA randomized trial.
abstract: The CRUZA randomized trial tested the efficacy of an organizational-level intervention to increase the capacity of Catholic faith-based organizations (FBOs) serving Latinos to implement evidence-based strategies (EBS) for cancer control.
  
  
  
  Thirty-one Catholic parishes were enrolled. Twenty were randomized to a "capacity enhancement" (CE) intervention and 11 to a "standard dissemination" (SD) condition. Each received a Program Implementation Manual and Toolkit of materials culturally adapted for FBOs with Latino audiences for five types of EBS recommended by the US Preventive Services Community Guide. CE parishes were offered a menu of capacity-building activities over a 3-month period, while SD parishes were provided a one-time consultation by an Intervention Specialist. Baseline and follow-up surveys compared the number and types of EBS offered.
  
  
  
  At baseline, only one parish had offered any cancer-related program in the prior year, yet a third (36 %) had offered some other type of health program or service. At post-intervention follow-up, all parishes offered a greater number of EBS. The only statistically significant difference between CE and SD groups was the number of parishes offering small media interventions (90 % in CE, 64 % in SD; p < 0.05).
  
  
  
  All parishes increased the number of cancer control activities offered to their members. These findings suggest that Catholic parishes may already have capacity to implement EBS if they are appropriately adapted and packaged and may only require low levels of support to carry out programming. Further research is needed to examine the extent to which program offerings continued after the period of grant funding.
  
  
  
  Clinicaltrials.gov NCT01740219 .
authors.affiliation: Community Health Program and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA. jennifer.allen@tufts.edu.|Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA. jennifer.allen@tufts.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.affiliation: Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Maria Idalí
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Laura S
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Tom
authors.affiliation: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
authors.forename: Bryan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Leyva
authors.affiliation: Mauricio Gaston Institute for Latino Community Development and Public Policy, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Ana V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Galeas
authors.affiliation: Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
authors.forename: Hosffman
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ospino
mesh_terms: D002410:Catholicism; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000379:methods*; D000073576:Faith-Based Organizations; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008404:Massachusetts; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: Cancer screening; Capacity building; Catholic; Community-based participatory research; Evidence-based interventions; Faith-based organizations; Hispanics; Implementation science; Latinos; Organizational capacity