Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT02855385
Barriers to Care in Patients With Rectal Bleeding in Nigeria
Health-seeking Behavior and Barriers to Care in Patients With Rectal Bleeding in Nigeria
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 134 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This study sought to find the health seeking behavior of patients with rectal bleeding as related to their risk to develop colorectal cancer and also assess the general practitioner's perceived barriers to colonoscopy for patients with bleeding per rectum.
Detailed description
Patients who had rectal bleeding are invited to electronic media and print media will be invited for free medical consultation. Consented patients will complete a purposely design questionnaire for the study to assess the knowledge, attitude and practice of patient with rectal bleeding as regard the possibility of occurrence of colorectal cancer. General practitioners in three cities will be contacted to assess their screening strategy for patients with rectal bleeding
Conditions
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2014-11-01
- Completion
- 2014-11-01
- First posted
- 2016-08-04
- Last updated
- 2016-08-04
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT02855385. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.