A trial to increase participation in the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program by eligible Indigenous clients of participating primary health care centres that receive either an intensive model of support or a low intensity model of support in offering screening.

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Bowel Cancer; Cancer - Bowel - Back passage (rectum) or large bowel (colon)

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001555246
• Lead Sponsor: Menzies School of Health Research

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

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Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-09-17
• Last Update Posted: 16 September 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: ot yet recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 900

Inclusion Criteria

1.The Indigenous Primary Health Care Centre meets the definition of:
•A Primary Health Care Centre with a majority Indigenous patient population; or,
•A Primary Health Care Centre that does not have a majority of patients who are Indigenous, but has at least 50 Indigenous patients aged 50 to 74 years and wishes to make improving Indigenous participation in bowel screening an organisational priority.
Indigenous Primary Health Care Centres may include:
•Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations (ACCHOs)
•Primary Health Care Centres run by state or territory health services
•Private or corporate general practices
•Other types of Primary Health Care Services (for example, chronic disease teams).
2.At least fifty (50) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients in the eligible age group for the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (aged 50 to 74) who are active patients under the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Organisations/The Royal Australians College of General Practitioners definition: A patient who has attended the practice/service three or more times in the past 2 years (Source: Glossary, Interpretive Guide to the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners Standards, for Aboriginal community controlled health services).
3.The Indigenous Primary Health Care Centre must deliver at least some primary health care services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, have capacity to support the Alternative Pathway, and have access to a General Practitioner who can assess patients who receive a positive result and refer on to further diagnostic testing if required.
4.Internet access, a computer (or similar) that allows the Indigenous Primary Health Care Centre staff to provide information to the Register and a printer to print out the Health Centre Initiated Participant Details form.
5.Ability for cool storage of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program screening kits (less than 30 degrees) at the Indigenous Primary Health Care Centre.
6.Ability and willingness to execute a Participation Agreement

Exclusion Criteria

1.Conditions in the location or region of the Indigenous Primary Health Care Centre are assessed as unsuitable for participation and unable to be managed through the Quality and Safety Checklist process; for example, barriers to timely access to colonoscopy, hot zone or postal limitations.
2.No way to establish bowel screening into routine practice.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified