Does Numerical And Pictorial Information On Risk And Benefit Affects The Uptake Of Colorectal Cancer Screening?

NHS Trust

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer Screening

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01250015

CDDFT (UK) (Other Identifier)

CDDFT, UK (Other Identifier)

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Details and patient eligibility

About

To establish whether provision of numerical data, framed as event rates and illustrated by pictograms, and including figures for all-cause mortality, affects subjects' attitudes to colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.

Design and Intervention. Randomised questionnaire and telephone study comparing the responses of a control group given the standard National Health Service (NHS) CRC screening information with the responses of an intervention group given the same information but enhanced with additional numerical and pictorial information.

Setting

Enrollment: 400 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age 60 - 70

Exclusion criteria

• No previous cancer or previous colonoscopy Not able to give informed consent

Trial design

400 participants in 2 patient groups

control

Description:

given standard nhs advice leaflet

interventional

Description:

given standard nhs advice leaflet with numerical information and pictograms