Increasing Knowledge of Alcohol as a Risk Factor for Breast Cancer Among Women Attending Breast Screening Services (Health4Her)

Turning Point

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Consumption; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Treatments: Behavioral: lifestyle health promotion; Behavioral: alcohol brief intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04715516

LR19/011/50551

Details and patient eligibility

About

Alcohol is a major modifiable risk factor for breast cancer in women, yet this is not widely understood by health practitioners or policy makers, let alone the general population. The investigators aim to test the effects of a targeted alcohol and lifestyle brief intervention for women attending breast screening services, to improve knowledge of alcohol as a risk factor for breast cancer and reduce harmful alcohol use.

Enrollment: 558 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 40 to 74 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female
• attending breast screening service for a routine mammography
• 40-74 years
• English as a first language or fluent
• regular access to a telephone
• able to provide informed consent to participate
• any level of alcohol consumption (including non-drinkers)

Exclusion criteria

• hearing impairment sufficient to prohibit a telephone interview
• pregnancy
• not able to read or comprehend English to provide informed consent or receive the brief intervention

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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558 participants in 2 patient groups

alcohol brief intervention + lifestyle health promotion

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention arm will receive 4 minutes of alcohol brief intervention, and 3 minutes of lifestyle health promotion (physical activity; maintaining a healthy weight), to increase knowledge of how to improve women's health and reduce breast cancer risk. Alcohol and lifestyle information will be delivered by way of an animation on an iPad. Participant responses to questions about current alcohol use will branch to personalised feedback consistent with level of alcohol consumption (i.e. drinking within or above current Australian Alcohol Guidelines). Take-home pamphlets - a pamphlet summarising the alcohol information presented during the animation, and a pamphlet on nutrition to maintain a healthy weight, will be provided.

Treatment:

Behavioral: alcohol brief intervention

Behavioral: lifestyle health promotion

lifestyle health promotion, not inclusive of alcohol information

Other group

Description:

The control arm will receive 3 minutes of lifestyle health promotion (physical activity; maintaining a healthy weight) to increase knowledge of how to improve women's health and reduce breast cancer risk, not inclusive of alcohol information. Lifestyle information will be delivered by way of an animation on an iPad. Take-home pamphlet - a pamphlet on nutrition to maintain a healthy weight will be provided.

Treatment:

Behavioral: lifestyle health promotion