NCT06972160

Intervention Project to Increase Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Barcelos/Esposende

Interventions to Increase Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening in Barcelos/Esposende: a Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,038 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Local Health Unit Barcelos/Esposende, Public Health Unit · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 49 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

An experimental study through a randomized clinical trial, without blinding (for participants and the research team), with a control group (not subject to intervention) and an intervention group (subject to two text messages, an automated non-human call or a call made by the administrative assistant, and a phone call made by a physician).

Conditions

• Colon and Rectal Cancer

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Arm1: intervention 1 (SMS+call)	The intervention will consist in two text messages (one and two weeks after received the screening test, respectively), an automated non-human call or a call made by the administrative assistant (three weeks after received the screening test), and a phone call made by a physician (four weeks after received the screening test)
OTHER	Control group	The control group will not be subjected to any interventions to increase the adherence to screening.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-01
• Primary completion: 2025-09-30
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2025-05-14
• Last updated: 2025-05-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal