None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Improved participation in screening for bowel cancer is desirable. Currently population scale bowel cancer screening program delivery is by mailed offer from a central screening service and invitations include a faecal occult blood detection kit. Invitees may decline the offer because they do not feel they are at risk, or because they do not engage with the program. We have developed invitation letters to that include either improved risk messages or messages from previous screening participants in order to overcome these barriers. We will randomly select invitees from the electoral roll and compare population screening participation between groups with or without the preliminary letter to determine which program results in the greater participation rate. Improved participation in screening will ultimately reduce deaths from bowel cancer
Interventions
Intervention 1: the use of a bowel cancer screening invitation letter to that contains photographs of 2 previous screenees who were diagnosed with early bowel cancer through their participation in a bowel cancer screening program, and with simple program advocacy statements from them.
Intervention 2: the use of a bowel cancer screening invitation letter that contains enhanced positive framing and generalised risk messages.
Sponsors
Prof. Graeme Young MD, FRACP
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Blinded (masking used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
50 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Present on the electoral roll of the Australian Electoral Commission, who reside in one of a set of defined postcodes adjacent to Flinders Medical Centre or Repatriation General Hospital Daw Park.
Exclusion criteria
People already participating in bowel cancer screening research and service programs coordinated from the Bowel Health Service, Repatriation General Hospital Daw Park.Self exclusion by invitees - people who have specific heart and lung conditions that would preclude them from diagnostic and surgical follow-up following a positive screening test. All people who have specific medical conditions that would invalidate the screening test results. All people who have had a colonoscopy or stool screening test within the last year.
Outcome results
None listed