Telephone Outreach by Navigators to Improve Repeat Fecal Occult Blood Testing

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Colorectal Cancer Screening
• Interventions: Behavioral: telephone outreach

• Registration Number: NCT03974542
• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong

Brief Summary

To conduct a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of telephone outreach programme to improve the uptake rate of repeat fecal occult blood test in colorectal cancer screening programme.

Detailed Description

The colorectal cancer screening programme(CRCSP) adopts a two-tier approach, offering faecal occult blood test (FOBT) by FIT as first line screening followed by colonoscopy examination for cases with positive FIT result. Under the CRCSP, participants with negative or uninformative FIT result in the first round should be re-screened after 24 months.

The objective is to conduct a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of telephone outreach programme to improve the uptake rate of repeat fecal occult blood test in CRCSP.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2019-05-30
• Status Verified: 2019-06
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-06-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-06-03
• Study First Posted: 2019-06-05
• Last Update Posted: 2019-06-05
• Study Start: 2019-10
• Primary Completion: 2019-12
• Study Completion: 2020-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1000

Inclusion Criteria

• Participants of CRCSP born between 1949 and 1951 with negative or uninformative FIT result in the first screening round who are due for second rescreening round for at least 4 months but did not turn up for rescreening

Exclusion Criteria

• Nil

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
telephone outreach	telephone outreach	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
rescreening of CRC	5 months	completion of repeated fecal occult blood test in CRCSP