Increasing Access to Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrants

University of Oslo (UIO)

Status

Active, not recruiting

Conditions

Cancer Screening

Treatments

Other: Mother tongue and Norwegian

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04672265

213396 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

19/218

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators aim to test whether inviting immigrants to breast cancer screening with a letter in their mother tongue in addition to the standard letter in Norwegian changes screening uptake in these immigrant groups, compared with a comparable group who receive the invitation in Norwegian only,

Full description

Women in selected immigrant groups according to birth country will be invited to screening and randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive the screening invitation and information material 1) in the major official native language in the country the invitee is born in addition to Norwegian (intervention group), or 2) only Norwegian (control). The 13 selected countries of origin are Poland, the Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia and Arabic speaking countries (Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia). The five intervention languages will thus be Polish, English, Urdu, Somali and Arabic.

Enrollment

11,355 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

48 to 73 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Invited to screening program during the study recruitment period (January 2021-June 2022)
The registered country of birth of the invitee is one of the following; Poland, Pakistan, Philippines, Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia

Exclusion criteria