Improving Awareness and Beliefs About Cancer (ABACus) symptoms by using a bespoke online cancer health check interactive tool with personally tailored advice regarding lifestyle risk factors from a trained lay advisor

Conditions

Specialty: Cancer, Primary sub-specialty: Primary Care

Yvonne Moriarty, Mandy Lau, Bernadette Sewell, Rob Trubey, Harriet Quinn-Scoggins et al. (25 authors)

British Journal of Cancer2021-08-275 citations

Recruitment and retention of participants from socioeconomically deprived communities: lessons from the Awareness and Beliefs About Cancer (ABACus3) Randomised Controlled Trial

Vasiliki Kolovou, Yvonne Moriarty, Stephanie Gilbert, Harriet Quinn-Scoggins, Julia Townson et al. (20 authors)

BMC Medical Research Methodology2020-11-0419 citations

10.1186/s12874-020-01149-x

Improving cancer symptom awareness and help-seeking among adults living in socioeconomically deprived communities in the UK using a facilitated health check: A protocol for the Awareness and Beliefs About Cancer (ABACus) Randomised Control Trial.

Moriarty Y, Townson J, Quinn-Scoggins H, Padgett L, Owen S, Smits S, Playle R, Dimitropoulou P, Sewell B, Kolovou V, Buckle P, Carter B, Edwards A, Hepburn J, Matthews M, Mitchell C, Neal RD, Robling M, Wood F, Brain K.

2019-03-119 citations

10.1186/s12889-019-6612-9

Interventions

The ABACus Health Check is an innovative community outreach intervention designed to improve cancer symptom knowledge, encourage positive beliefs in relation to cancer early detection, and increase mo

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Aged 40 years and over 2. Recruited from socioeconomically deprived areas of South and West Yorkshire (i.e. Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham, Wakefield) or Southeast Wales (i.e. Merthyr Tydfil and Newport)

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Non-English speakers 2. Unable to give informed consent 3. A participant from the phase 2 feasibility study (only relevant in South East Wales)

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Cancer symptom knowledge (calculated as the mean aggregated symptom recognition score), measured using the adapted (Awareness and Beliefs about Cancer) measure at 2 weeks.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
1. Cancer Beliefs, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 2. Barriers to presentation, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 3. Help-seeking intentions, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 4. Cancer worry, measured using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 5. Intervention implementation costs, measured using the Client Service Receipt Inventory at 6 months Exploratory outcomes measures: 1. Cancer screening intentions, beliefs and self-reported behaviours measured using the Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire at 2 weeks and 6 months 2. Lifestyle intentions (stop smoking, weight loss, reduce alcohol consumption), measured using the Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire at 2 weeks and 6 months 3. Cancer risk factor awareness, measured using the adapted ABC at 2 weeks and 6 months	—

Measure

Time frame

1. Cancer Beliefs, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 2. Barriers to presentation, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 3. Help-seeking intentions, measured using the adapted ABC measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 4. Cancer worry, measured using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) measure at 2 weeks and 6 months 5. Intervention implementation costs, measured using the Client Service Receipt Inventory at 6 months Exploratory outcomes measures: 1. Cancer screening intentions, beliefs and self-reported behaviours measured using the Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire at 2 weeks and 6 months 2. Lifestyle intentions (stop smoking, weight loss, reduce alcohol consumption), measured using the Theory of Planned Behaviour Questionnaire at 2 weeks and 6 months 3. Cancer risk factor awareness, measured using the adapted ABC at 2 weeks and 6 months

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Countries

England, United Kingdom, Wales

Outcome results

None listed