sing text message reminders and culturally-tailored telephone calls to promote participation in bowel cancer screening (TOPPS)

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Bowel cancer screening; Cancer

• Registration Number: ISRCTN17245519
• Lead Sponsor: niversity College London

Brief Summary

2024 Protocol article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38909999/ (added 25/06/2024)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-02-20
• Last Update Posted: 8 July 2024
• Study Completion: 2024-10-30

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Ongoing
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 2703

Inclusion Criteria

1. Men and women aged 60-74 years
2. Have not returned a bowel cancer screening kit within 13 weeks of delivery
3. Registered with a participating general practice located within the London Boroughs of Brent, Ealing, Lambeth, Lewisham, Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham

Exclusion Criteria

Exclusions will be made according to ‘Type-2 objector’ status, which is defined as: a request, expressed by a registered patient, logged with a GP Practice, to indicate that personal identifiable information relating to them should not be disseminated or published by NHS Digital.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Participation in screening, defined as returning a completed FIT kit, within 24 weeks of dispatch

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The proportion of participants who receive a positive bowel cancer screening test kit result, within 26 weeks of being sent their test kit