Cancer Screening Training for Academics

KTO Karatay University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Cancer training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07253792

14.04.2025-E.107676

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine the effect of cancer screening education on individuals' knowledge levels regarding cancer screening and their rates of utilization of primary health care services.

Method: The research was conducted using a parallel group pretest-posttest experimental design. The study, conducted at a foundation university between April and May 2025, included 71 academics selected using simple random sampling. The intervention group received structured cancer screening education for four weeks. Data will be collected using a Personal Information Form and the Cancer Screening Knowledge Scale (CSKS), and will be analyzed using appropriate statistical methods.

Enrollment: 71 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be employed full-time at the university,
• Be able to read and understand Turkish,
• Not have received any cancer screening training in the last 6 months

Exclusion criteria

• Those who did not participate in the training or participated incompletely,
• Those with incomplete information in the pre-test or post-test data,
• Those who have been diagnosed with cancer and are undergoing treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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71 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Pre-test data, including the Personal Information Form and the Cancer Screening Information Scale, were collected from participants in the intervention group before the training began. The pre-test took approximately 5-10 minutes to complete. Subsequently, this group received training on cancer screening and Family Health Centre use once a week for a total of four weeks. Following the completion of the training, a post-test was administered at the end of the fourth week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cancer training

control

No Intervention group

Description:

No training was provided to participants in the control group. Participants in this group were only asked to complete a Personal Information Form at the beginning of the study, and final test data was collected at the end of the four weeks.