Health-seeking Behavior and Barriers to Care in Patients With Rectal Bleeding in Nigeria
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 134
- 主要终点
- Colonoscopy referral triggers among General Practitioners (GP)
研究概览
简要总结
This study sought to find the health seeking behavior of patients with rectal bleeding as related to their risk to develop colorectal cancer and also assess the general practitioner's perceived barriers to colonoscopy for patients with bleeding per rectum.
详细描述
Patients who had rectal bleeding are invited to electronic media and print media will be invited for free medical consultation. Consented patients will complete a purposely design questionnaire for the study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of patient with rectal bleeding as regard the possibility of occurrence of colorectal cancer.
General practitioners in three cities will be contacted to assess their screening strategy for patients with rectal bleeding
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Cohort
- 时间视角
- Cross Sectional
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •All adult patients with rectal bleeding that persisted for up to one month
排除标准
- •Patient that has the cause of rectal bleeding already determined before presentation
结局指标
主要结局
Colonoscopy referral triggers among General Practitioners (GP)
时间窗: 60 days
To seeks to examine the GPs' perceived barriers to colonoscopy for patients with bleeding per rectum
Knowledge score in relations to the demographics of patients with rectal bleeding
时间窗: 60 days
To investigates patients' knowledge of the causes of rectal bleeding and their attitudes towards seeking expert opinion for possible diagnostic testing for colorectal cancer (CRC)
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Olusegun Alatise
Consultant Surgeon/Senior Lecturer
Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital