NCT04672265

Increasing Access to Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrants

A Randomized Trial to Increase Access to Breast Cancer Screening by Invitation Language Among Immigrants in Norway

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 11,355 (actual)
• Sponsor: Oslo University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 48 Years – 73 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The investigators aim to test whether inviting immigrants to breast cancer screening with a letter in their mother tongue in addition to the standard letter in Norwegian changes screening uptake in these immigrant groups, compared with a comparable group who receive the invitation in Norwegian only,

Detailed description

Women in selected immigrant groups according to birth country will be invited to screening and randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive the screening invitation and information material 1) in the major official native language in the country the invitee is born in addition to Norwegian (intervention group), or 2) only Norwegian (control). The 13 selected countries of origin are Poland, the Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia and Arabic speaking countries (Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia). The five intervention languages will thus be Polish, English, Urdu, Somali and Arabic.

Conditions

• Cancer Screening

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Mother tongue and Norwegian	The screening invitation letter, the information leaflet, the reminder letter and the result letter will be sent in two languages; an official language in the country where the invitee is born, and Norwegian.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-04-15
• Primary completion: 2022-08-31
• Completion: 2030-12-31
• First posted: 2020-12-17
• Last updated: 2024-04-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway