To compare the efficacy of Oral cancer screening by mHealth application Vs Conventional screening by healthcare workers in rural Varanasi.
Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2021/02/031306
- Lead Sponsor
- Biocon Foundation
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
Positive for any one or more of the following:
All individuals aged above 18 years positive for habits (smoking and smokeless tobacco, chewing
betel leaf, areca nut, paan masala, and/or regular use of alcohol)
Clinical signs/symptoms (non-healing ulcers, white/ red/red & white patches in the mouth,
restriction of mouth opening and swelling of the neck)
All individuals aged above 40 irrespective of habit/oral lesions
Exclusion Criteria
Individuals already diagnosed with oral cancer and undergoing treatment for oral cancer
Under treatment for tuberculosis or suffering from any acute illness/ debilitating systemic
disorders
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method A. Baseline data collection <br/ ><br>B. Data Analysis : Concordance index (CI) and Akaike <br/ ><br>information criterion (AIC) will be used to calculate the predictive accuracy of the both screening <br/ ><br>methods taking onsite specialist as the standard reference. <br/ ><br>C. Follow up- of all the patients will be 1 year (Monitoring the progression of lesions with electronic health <br/ ><br>records for 3 yearsTimepoint: A. At the time of screening <br/ ><br>B. 2 years <br/ ><br>C. 1 year (Monitoring the p
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ilTimepoint: Nil