Promoting Cervical Cancer Screening for Emergency Department Patients

University of Rochester

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cervical Cancer

Treatments: Behavioral: Text Messaging; Behavioral: Provider Referral

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03483610

RSRB00070962

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to learn methods to encourage women to get recommended cervical cancer screening. Cervical cancer screening is an important part of cervical cancer prevention. The study team will determine if the patient is currently up-to-date with cervical cancer screening recommendations. If the patient is not up-to-date, then they will be randomly assigned to one of two interventions. One intervention consists only of referral to a women's health care provider to obtain cervical cancer screening. The other intervention consists of receiving a total of 3 text messages at 30-day intervals encouraging follow-up for cervical cancer screening.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 21 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Registered patient in the Emergency Department of the University of Rochester Medical Center
• Women
• Age 21 - 65

Exclusion criteria

• Past hysterectomy with cervical removal
• Known infection with HIV (screening recommendations for women with HIV differ from the general population)
• Non-English speaking
• Inability to consent
• Lack of text-capable mobile phone and/or inability to use text function

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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95 participants in 2 patient groups

screening and referral

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Provider Referral

behavioral intervention

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Text Messaging