Does Numerical And Pictorial Information On Risk And Benefit Affects The Uptake Of Colorectal Cancer Screening?
- Conditions
- Colorectal Cancer Screening
- Registration Number
- NCT01250015
- Brief Summary
To establish whether provision of numerical data, framed as event rates and illustrated by pictograms, and including figures for all-cause mortality, affects subjects' attitudes to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.
Design and Intervention. Randomised questionnaire and telephone study comparing the responses of a control group given the standard National Health Service (NHS) CRC screening information with the responses of an intervention group given the same information but enhanced with additional numerical and pictorial information.
Setting
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
Age 60 - 70
- No previous cancer or previous colonoscopy Not able to give informed consent
Study & Design
- Study Type
- OBSERVATIONAL
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Comparison of the two groups' overall wish to be screened 1 year The study compared the two groups' overall wish to be screened as recorded by questionnaire
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Impact of different summary points on subject's desire to be screened 1 year The impact of each of the 6 summary points in the NHS information leaflet on the subject's desire to be screened depending on whether or not they were enhanced by numerical and pictorial information, the summary point that most influenced their decision on whether to be screened; and the views of the intervention group on the numerical and pictorial information provided
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Darlington Memorial Hospital
🇬🇧Darlington, Co durham, United Kingdom