Interventions to Improve Colon Cancer Screening in Poor Rural Iowa Counties
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer
In brief
The goal of the study is to conduct a randomized clinical trial to test several office-based strategies for improving colon cancer screening among individuals who are regular patients at 16 family practice physician offices in the state of Iowa. These offices are members of the Iowa Research Network (IRENE), a rural practice-based research network. The interventions to be tested are increasing in intensity from the usual care provided in the office, to physician chart reminders, mailed educational materials to patients, a fecal immunochemical test with postage-paid return envelope, and a telephone call designed to determine attitudes and barriers to screening, and to motivate subjects to get screened. Our main research questions are: 1)do attitudes toward CRC screening change after providing educational materials about CRC screening? 2)do mailed educational materials and a FIT, with or without a telephone reminder, result in increased rates of CRC testing with the FIT?
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01477814
- Run by
- Barcey T. Levy
- People needed
- 743
- Starts
- 2008-07-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-07-16
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-04-24
Who can join
Age: 52 and older, up to 79. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- patients not up-to-date with CRC screening guidelines based on their responses to baseline survey
- patients with a positive personal history of CRC
You may not qualify if…
- patients with personal history of CRC or inflammatory bowel disease
- patients with a family history of hereditary conditions that put them at high risk for CRC (familial adenomatous polyposis or hereditary, nonpolyposis CRC)
- inability to read and comprehend the Informed Consent or written survey
- patients who are up-to-date with CRC screening guidelines based on their response to the baseline survey
Where it is running
- Iowa Research Network, University of Iowa — Iowa City, Iowa, United States
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