Interventions to improve participation in bowel cancer screening: the value of lay advocacy and positive framing of risk.

Phase 3

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: Screening for bowel cancer; Cancer - Bowel - Anal; Cancer - Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon); Cancer - Bowel - Small bowel (duodenum and ileum

• Registration Number: ACTRN12605000279628
• Lead Sponsor: Prof. Graeme Young MD, FRACP

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2005-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1800

Inclusion Criteria

Present on the electoral roll of the Australian Electoral Commission, who reside in one of a set of defined postcodes adjacent to Flinders Medical Centre or Repatriation General Hospital Daw Park.

Exclusion Criteria

People already participating in bowel cancer screening research and service programs coordinated from the Bowel Health Service, Repatriation General Hospital Daw Park.Self exclusion by invitees - people who have specific heart and lung conditions that would preclude them from diagnostic and surgical follow-up following a positive screening test. All people who have specific medical conditions that would invalidate the screening test results. All people who have had a colonoscopy or stool screening test within the last year.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Completion of faecal immunochemical test within 12 weeks of offer[]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Test positivity rate[];Yield of neoplasia[]