Bowel Cancer Screening through General Practitioners in Port Macquarie

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Public Health - Health promotion/education; Bowel Cancer; Cancer - Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon)

• Registration Number: ACTRN12614001015639
• Lead Sponsor: The Gut Foundation

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2014-09-22
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1064

Inclusion Criteria

Male and female clients visiting their GP who are 40 years or older.

Exclusion Criteria

Inability to make informed consent (for example dementia).
Client declines to take part or conduct an FOBt.
Presence of IBD or bowel cancer.
Any other reason where a GP professionally decides an FOBt is inappropriate.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
On initial presentation to their GP, subjects who have consented to take part in the study will be given information (written & verbal) on bowel cancer screening and offered an FOBt kit. <br>The number of FOBt kits offered compared to returned kits (results data recorded by the pathology company) will be compared to the same in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program.[The primary time point (baseline) will be the day of signing the consent form and being given bowel cancer screening education and an FOBt kit.<br>Once the kits have been dispensed participants are given a time period within which to return them (3 months) and for results to be recorded by the pathology company.<br>The primary time point is baseline where number of participants are recorded along with number of kits distributed.<br>]