Effects of Education After Colorectal Cancer Screening

Istanbul Saglik Bilimleri University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Education; Healthy Lifestyle

Treatments: Behavioral: Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06311565

SBU-ISTANBUL-0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the education given to individuals undergoing colorectal cancer screening on their attitudes, beliefs and healthy lifestyle behaviors.

This study was planned to be conducted as a prospective randomized controlled study in a family health center in Istanbul. The universe of the research; The sample of individuals registered to the family health center will consist of a total of 70 individuals who meet the inclusion criteria for the study.

Patient Diagnosis Form, Colorectal Cancer Screening Attitude Belief Scale, Healthy Lifestyle Behavior Scale II will be used to collect data. Data will be collected at the first encounter, 1 month later, 3 months later, pre-test and post-test. In the research, individuals will be divided into two groups: intervention (n = 35) and control (n = 35). Training will be provided to the intervention group.

Enrollment: 70 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Between 50-70 years old,
• Registered at the Family Health Center,
• Able to speak Turkish,
• No diagnosis of psychiatric disease and no history of anxiolytic drug use,
• They will have a Fecal Occult Blood test for the first time,
• Positive result of fecal occult blood test,
• Faecal occult blood test was positive and had a colonoscopy,
• Those who have not been diagnosed with colorectal cancer as a result of colonoscopy,
• Individuals who volunteer to participate in the research

Exclusion criteria

• Having had previous colon surgery,
• Individuals with a history of colorectal cancer will not be included in the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

Education

Experimental group

Description:

People who have undergone colorectal cancer screening will be given training on colorectal cancer prevention. Training will be carried out face to face and individually. The training will take approximately 25-30 minutes.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Education

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Individuals in this group will be screened for colorectal cancer. However, this group will not be given any training on cancer prevention.