Study of Patient Navigation to Reduce Social Inequalities (PRADO)

Institut National de la Santé Et de la Recherche Médicale, France

Status: Completed

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer Screening

Treatments: Other: Patient Navigation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01555450

R10051EE

Details and patient eligibility

About

Variations in participation to the colorectal cancer screening seems to reveal social and geographical inequalities. Our study will investigate whether patient navigation could increase the participation to the colorectal cancer screening and in the same time, reduce the social inequalities.

Enrollment: 28,929 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 50 to 74 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Insured people invited to the national french colorectal screening program are from 50 to 74 years old.
• We select people who never do the screening test or are not compliant with it
• Among these people we select those living in the randomized geographical areas.

Exclusion criteria

• people who have already done the screening test at the two previous campaigns.
• people who have done a colonoscopy in the previous five years or people with a family history with colorectal cancer and people who are following outside of the screening program.
• people with other severe disease or in incapacity to realize the screening test
• people who have another exclusion criteria to realize the screening test.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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28,929 participants in 2 patient groups

With Patient Navigator

Experimental group

Description:

People in this arm receive the Intervention of a Patient Navigator

Treatment:

Other: Patient Navigation

Control - Without Patient Navigator

No Intervention group

Description:

People in this arm receive just the usual care of colorectal cancer screening