NCT03974542

Telephone Outreach by Navigators to Improve Repeat Fecal Occult Blood Testing

Telephone Outreach by Navigators to Improve Repeat Fecal Occult Blood Testing in Population Colorectal Cancer Screening Programme- a Randomised Control Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre for Health Protection, Hong Kong · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

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.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer Screening

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	telephone 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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-01
• Completion: 2020-02-01
• First posted: 2019-06-05
• Last updated: 2019-06-05