Barriers to Care in Patients With Rectal Bleeding in Nigeria

Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02855385

ERC/2013/09/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study sought to find the health seeking behavior of patients with rectal bleeding as related to their risk to develop colorectal cancer and also assess the general practitioner's perceived barriers to colonoscopy for patients with bleeding per rectum.

Full description

Patients who had rectal bleeding are invited to electronic media and print media will be invited for free medical consultation. Consented patients will complete a purposely design questionnaire for the study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of patient with rectal bleeding as regard the possibility of occurrence of colorectal cancer.

General practitioners in three cities will be contacted to assess their screening strategy for patients with rectal bleeding

Enrollment: 134 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All adult patients with rectal bleeding that persisted for up to one month

Exclusion criteria

• Patient that has the cause of rectal bleeding already determined before presentation

Trial design

134 participants in 2 patient groups

Patient group

Description:

This are patients who have current or previous history of rectal bleeding

General Practitioner group

Description:

This are General practitioner who are in public or private hospitals who treat patients with rectal bleeding