Comprehensibility of Colorectal Cancer Screening Educational Materials: Effects on Patient Knowledge and Motivation

University of California (UC) Davis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Neoplasms

Treatments: Behavioral: Traditional colorectal cancer screening education document; Behavioral: New colorectal cancer screening patient education document

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00965965

200917361-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a newly developed patient education document concerning colorectal cancer screening will be better understood and have greater effects on patient knowledge of and motivation for screening than a standard educational document.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Receive primary care at one of the participating outpatient offices
• Age 50-75
• Able to read and speak English
• Adequate vision, hearing, and hand function to read printed documents, communicate with research staff, answer questionnaires, and otherwise participate
• Not up to date for colorectal cancer screening (defined as fecal occult blood test within 1 year, flexible sigmoidoscopy within 5 years, or colonoscopy within 10 years)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental patient education document

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: New colorectal cancer screening patient education document

Traditional patient education document

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Traditional colorectal cancer screening education document