NCT05341622

Mailed FIT Outreach 2022

Pragmatic Trial of Behavioral Interventions to Increase Response to Mailed FIT Outreach

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5,460 (actual)
• Sponsor: Abramson Cancer Center at Penn Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 50 Years – 74 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This project aims to evaluate different approaches to increase colorectal cancer screening among primary care patients at Penn Medicine through a centralized screening outreach program. In a pragmatic trial, we will evaluate different approaches to increase response rate to mailed fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kits among eligible patients, including differentiated packaging, sending text reminders, and personalized reminders.

Detailed description

While colonoscopy procedures are recommended by guidelines for early detection of colorectal cancer, colonoscopy access remains limited due to delays in screening due to the pandemic and capacity issues. In this project, we will evaluate different ways of reaching out to eligible patients to encourage them to participate in colorectal cancer screening using fecal immunochemical testing (FIT). In a mailed FIT outreach campaign, we will compare user friendly packaging, text messaging, and personalized reminders to standard outreach with the goal of increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake.

Conditions

• Colorectal Cancer
• Colon Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Differentiated Box	Patients will receive mailed FIT kits in a box with differentiated packaging
BEHAVIORAL	Standard Mail	Patients will receive mailed FIT in a standard mailing envelope
BEHAVIORAL	Text	Patients will receive a series of up to 3 texts explaining the importance of colon cancer screening and prompts to complete the mailed FIT.
BEHAVIORAL	No Text	Patients will not receive text messaging explaining the importance of colon cancer screening or prompts to complete the mailed FIT.
BEHAVIORAL	Reminder	Patients will receive a mailed letter reminder to complete their FIT kit if not resulted by 1 month from initial outreach.
BEHAVIORAL	No Reminder	Patients will not receive any mailed letter reminder to complete their FIT kit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-27
• Primary completion: 2022-10-13
• Completion: 2022-12-13
• First posted: 2022-04-22
• Last updated: 2024-07-24
• Results posted: 2024-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States