Evaluating Materials to Educate Patients About Cervical Dysplasia

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Education; Cervical Dysplasia
• Interventions: Behavioral: Questionnaire

• Registration Number: NCT00454766
• Lead Sponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Brief Summary

Primary Objective:

To pilot test high and low literacy patient education materials for colposcopy clinic patients, assessing impact on patient knowledge and patient feedback about the materials.

Detailed Description

Women with an abnormal Papanicolaou (Pap) smear are typically referred for a colposcopy and biopsy. However, data collected by research groups and others shows that women with abnormal Pap smear results have limited understanding of the meaning of the results, the causes of cervical dysplasia, and the procedures used to evaluate and treat it. This situation is further complicated by the fact that many patients, particularly those with less education, have low health literacy in general. This means that much of the existing patient education materials will likely be inappropriate or ineffective for this group. One approach is to develop materials at low literacy levels; however, it is not known whether such materials will be provide sufficient information and be effective for patients with high health literacy.

The long term goal is to study the importance of tailoring patient education materials to colposcopy patients' level of health literacy. To this end, researchers have developed two educational brochures with approximately the same information, but which vary in their health literacy (readability) level. As a first step in this research, researchers propose to present these materials to colposcopy patients returning for colposcopy visits to assess changes in knowledge and obtain patient feedback on the brochures.

The proposed pilot study represents the first step at evaluating the patient education materials and determining the patient's level of understanding of what they receive.

Basic Information
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Study & Design
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Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-02
• Study First Submitted: 2007-03-29
• Study First Submitted QC: 2007-03-30
• Study First Posted: 2007-04-02
• Status Verified: 2020-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-12-29
• Last Update Posted: 2020-12-30
• Primary Completion: 2024-02
• Study Completion: 2025-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

1. Over 18 years old;
2. Follow up colposcopy clinic patients who completed a colposcopy and treatment (if indicated) at an earlier date;
3. Able to communicate in English

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Exclusion Criteria

None

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Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Questionnaire	Questionnaire	Questionnaire Regarding Tailored Educational Materials

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
To study the importance of tailoring patient education materials to colposcopy patients' level of health literacy.	2 Years

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; 🇺🇸 Houston, Texas, United States