NCT03884868

Iconographies for Risk Communication and Reduction of Patient's Anxiety in a Colorectal Cancer Screening Program

Use of Iconographies for Risk Communication and Reduction of Patient's Anxiety During the Nurse Information Visit in the Colorectal Cancer Screening Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 240 (actual)
• Sponsor: Corporacion Parc Tauli · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 69 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Participants in the colon and rectal cancer (CRC) screening program that have a positive result in the Fecal Immunological Test (FIT) are visited by the screening nurse who explains the meaning of the positive test and the need to perform a colonoscopy. Having a positive result in the screening test can have a negative psychological impact on patients causing anguish. Objective: To evaluate whether the use of iconographies to communicate the risks of possible diagnoses to patients with positive FIT improves the understanding of the information and reduces the degree of anguish. Methods: Quasi-experimental pre-post intervention study with a control group. 240 individuals (men and women between 50-69 years of age, with a positive FIT result attending the nursing visit) will be included in two non-concurrent study groups (120 individuals per group). The control group will receive the nurse visit as usual. For the intervention group, the nurse will use iconographies to communicate the risk of the different possible diagnoses and the risk of complications of the colonoscopy. The degree of distress (Distress Thermometer and a scale of emotion-faces) will be measured before and after the visit and the understanding of the information (visual analog scale) after the visit. The degree of distress between the control group and intervention group will be compared. If the results are favorable, the systematic use of iconographies can be implemented in the nursing screening visit and be extended to other Screening Units.

Conditions

• Colo-rectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Iconographies to communicate risks	Use of iconographies to communicate the risks of the different possible diagnosis after a positive FIT during the screening program nurse visit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-04-01
• Primary completion: 2019-08-31
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2019-03-21
• Last updated: 2021-08-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain