Improving Access to Control of Diseases for Women (IMPACD)

International Agency for Research on Cancer

Status: Completed

Conditions: Breast Cancer; Cardio-vascular Disease; Stroke Cancer; Oral Cancer; Cervical Cancer

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: Evaluation of the feasibility and acceptability of delivery of early detections services; Diagnostic Test: Evaluation of social, cultural and behavioral factors

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03604939

DCA/SCR/2016/01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the model of delivering CHW-driven home-based comprehensive NCD control services aimed to prevent premature deaths from cardio-vascular diseases, stroke and breast, cervix and oral cancers in the hard-to-reach women.

Full description

Specific objectives of this study are the evaluation of:

1. The social, cultural and behavioral factors that impact the uptake of the NCD control services among rural women using the Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation (RARE) approach;

2. The feasibility and acceptability of the strategy to deliver the following NCD control services to the rural women at their homes by the trained CHWs:

   • Counselling of the tobacco habitués to give up the practice
   • Early detection of hypertension and diabetes to ensure prompt and regular treatment
   • Creating breast awareness and ensuring access to prompt diagnosis and treatment of the women with symptoms suggestive of breast cancer
   • Screening for cervical cancer by self-collected HPV test and ensuring prompt treatment of screen detected precancers and cancers
   • Screening of the habitual tobacco/alcohol users for oral cancer by OVE and ensuring prompt treatment of screen detected precancers and cancers

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 30 to 60 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women between 30 to 60 years residing in the villages of the Gogunda block in the district of Udaipur in Rajasthan, India, will be eligible to participate.

Exclusion criteria

• Women suffering from debilitating illnesses, pregnant women and women refusing to participate will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)