Telephone Outreach by Navigators to Improve Repeat Fecal Occult Blood Testing

Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Colorectal Cancer Screening

Treatments: Behavioral: telephone outreach

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03974542

CRC

Details and patient eligibility

About

To conduct a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of telephone outreach programme to improve the uptake rate of repeat fecal occult blood test in colorectal cancer screening programme.

Full description

The colorectal cancer screening programme(CRCSP) adopts a two-tier approach, offering faecal occult blood test (FOBT) by FIT as first line screening followed by colonoscopy examination for cases with positive FIT result. Under the CRCSP, participants with negative or uninformative FIT result in the first round should be re-screened after 24 months.

The objective is to conduct a randomised control trial to test the effectiveness of telephone outreach programme to improve the uptake rate of repeat fecal occult blood test in CRCSP.

Enrollment: 1,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants of CRCSP born between 1949 and 1951 with negative or uninformative FIT result in the first screening round who are due for second rescreening round for at least 4 months but did not turn up for rescreening

Exclusion criteria

• Nil

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

telephone outreach

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: telephone outreach

control

No Intervention group