Promoting Cancer Screening Among Medicaid Recipients in Minnesota

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Conditions studied: Colorectal Cancer, Breast Cancer

In brief

This study evaluates the effectiveness of persuasive direct mail materials coupled with an incentive for increasing breast and colorectal cancer screening among people enrolled in Medicaid. Half of age- and gender-appropriate enrollees received this intervention; the other half received the same intervention 15 months later

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03275987

Run by

Minnesota Department of Health

People needed

138554

Starts

2014-04-23

Expected to finish

2017-05-10

Last updated by the study team

2017-09-11

Who can join

Age: 50 and older, up to 74. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Enrolled in Minnesota Medicaid for at least the prior year

You may not qualify if…

• Younger than 50 or older than 74
• Women having mammogram in 15 months before trial (mammography intervention)
• Evidence of a colonoscopy in the past 10 years, flexible sigmoidoscopy in the past five years, or fecal immunochemical or fecal occult blood test in the past year (colonoscopy intervention)

Where it is running

• Minnesota Department of Health — Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

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