NCT03032874

Community Based Screening for Colorectal Cancer in an Underserved High Risk Population in Nigeria

Colorectal Cancer Control in Low Resource Countries: Results From a Prospective Cohort Study of Patients at High-risk for Colorectal Cancer

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Patient age 45 year old and above who presented with rectal bleeding at three tertiary hospitals in South West Nigeria were invited for colonoscopy. The clinical information of the patients and the colonoscopy data were analyzed

Detailed description

Patient age 45 year old and above who presented with rectal bleeding at Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospitals Complex, Ile Ife, Nigeria, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria, and University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin Nigeria were invited for colonoscopy. Categorical variables were compared using χ2-test or Fisher's exact test while the Kruskal-Wallis test was used for quantitative variables. Multivariate analysis was performed using logistic regression model. All statistical tests were two-sided and p-values below 0.05 were considered statistically significant. Statistical analysis was carried out using SAS 9.4 and R 3.3.1.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Colonoscopy	They all had screening colonoscopy

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-07-30
• Completion: 2016-07-30
• First posted: 2017-01-26
• Last updated: 2017-01-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Nigeria