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Risk-adapted Screening in First-degree Relatives of Patients With Colorectal Cancer

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Colorectal Neoplasms
Interventions
Behavioral: Nurse-led counselling
Registration Number
NCT01903395
Lead Sponsor
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Brief Summary

BACKGROUND: First-degree relatives of patients with colorectal cancer are at increased risk for colorectal cancer as well. Nevertheless, participation in the German national screening program stagnates at 2-3 percent per year even in this high-risk population.

AIM: The study is aimed to increase the portion of the first-degree relatives on 50% which take up a preventive colonoscopy.

METHODS: Cluster-randomized controlled multi-center trial. Study sites (clusters) are mainly certified cancer centers and office-based gastroenterologists from all over Germany. Index-patients with colorectal cancer of different stages are asked to hand over the study material to their relatives, consisting of an invitation to a nurse-led counseling on preventive colonoscopy and an one-to-one appointment with a clinical expert of one of the study sites next.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
313
Inclusion Criteria
  • aged 18 and over
  • being first-degree relatives of patients with diagnosed colorectal cancer
  • able to understand German
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Exclusion Criteria
  • Familial Adenomatous Polyposis
  • utilization of diagnostic colonoscopy within the past 5 years
  • being ever treated for colorectal cancer
  • actual inflammatory bowl disease
  • comorbidities associated with reduced further life expectancy (ECOG performance status >3
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Nurse-led counsellingNurse-led counsellingFirst-degree relatives of patients undergoing active treatment for colorectal cancer are offered a nurse-led counselling by telephone regarding emotional and cognitive barriers to screening utilization.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
utilization of preventive colonoscopyutilization within 30 days after enrolement
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Rate of advanced adenomas or carcinomas in situRate within 6 month after enrolement
post-operative complications associated with the colonoscopywithin 30 days after enrolement
barriers to the use of preventive colonoscopywithin 30 day after enrolement, additional at 6 months after enrolement

Barriers against preventive colonoscopy are very common among the healthy population. Such barriers can bei either of cognitive (e.g. being afraid of the potential diagnosis) or emotional nature (e.g. shame to be exposed naked to the examiners).

Barriers are assessed by Barriers Questionnaire-II (BQ-II) during telephone counselling.

effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of nurse-led counsellingwithin 30 days after enrolement
time delay between signed informed consent and utilization of colonoscopyat utilization of the colonoscopy

Trial Locations

Locations (33)

Klinikum Barnim

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Eberswalde, Brandenburg, Germany

Kliniken Landkreis Sigmaringen GmbH

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Sigmaringen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Klinikum Aschaffenburg

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Aschaffenburg, Bayern, Germany

Krankenhaus St. Marienwörth

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Bad Kreuznach, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

Diakonissenkrankenhaus Dessau gemeinnützige GmbH

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Dessau-Roßlau, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Evangelisches Diakonissenkrankenhaus Leipzig gGmbH

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Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany

Gastroenterologische Schwerpunktpraxis Völklingen

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Völklingen, Saarland, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Gießen und Marburg

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Marburg, Hessen, Germany

Städtisches Klinikum Braunschweig

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Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany

Allgemeines Krankenhaus Celle

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Celle, Niedersachsen, Germany

Diakonissen-Stiftungs-Krankenhaus Speyer

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Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

HELIOS Kliniken Schwerin

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Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

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Erlangen, Bayern, Germany

Städtisches Klinikum Lüneburg

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Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany

Johanniter-Krankenhaus Rheinhausen

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Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Stiftung Juliusspital Würzburg

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Würzburg, Bayern, Germany

Sankt Elisabeth Hospital Gütersloh

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Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Knappschaftskrankenhaus Ruhr Universität Bochum

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Bochum, Nordrhein-Wetsfalen, Germany

Diakoniekrankenhaus Mannheim

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Mannheim, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany

Klinikum Stuttgart Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt

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Stuttgart, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany

Klinikum Hanau

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Hanau, Hessen, Germany

Klinikum Lüdenscheid

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Lüdenscheid, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

HELIOS Klinik Sangerhausen

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Sangerhausen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Krankenhaus Köln-Holweide

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Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Klinikum Osnabrück GmbH

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Osnabrück, Niedersachsen, Germany

Westküstenklinikum Heide

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Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Evangelisches Krankenhaus Paul Gerhardt Stift

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Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Praxis für Innere Medizin Dr. med. Regine Lange

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Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Klinikum Magdeburg gemeinnützige GmbH

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Magdeburg, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Jena

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Jena, Thüringen, Germany

Universitätsklinikum Ulm

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Ulm, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany

Klinikum Ludwigsburg

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Ludwigsburg, Baden-Würtemberg, Germany

Klinik Evang. Krankenhaus Kalk

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Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

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