Colorectal Cancer Screening
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Detailed 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.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALtelephone outreach
The navigator should make at least five (5) attempts to reach the participants on different days (at least one (1) attempt in weekend) and different time slots (at least one (1) attempt each in am, pm and evening). If the navigator only reached voice mail after the 1-month intervention period, a standard script will be read and a contact number will be provided.
Sponsors
Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SCREENING
Masking
DOUBLE (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| rescreening of CRC | 2 months | completion of repeated fecal occult blood test in CRCSP |
Outcome results
None listed