Patient Perception of Mammogram Guidelines

Breast Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title:

Patient Perception of Mammogram Guidelines

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01267877
• Other study ID #: OBGYN13730
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: December 22, 2010
• Last updated: January 4, 2017
• Start date: March 2010
• Est. completion date: June 2010

Study information

• Verified date: January 2017
• Source: University of Massachusetts, Worcester
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes regarding the 2009 USPSTF Guidelines for breast cancer screening for women in their 40's and assess the effect of one of two newspaper articles on their attitudes. The population studied was women seeing their private gynecologist for annual exams in the 39-49 year old age group.

Description:

Subjects completed a baseline questionnaire listing demographics, previous experience with mammograms, and acquaintances with breast cancer. They then were randomly assigned one of two articles (one favorable and one unfavorable) that had been published in the newspaper regarding the USPSTF breast cancer screening guidelines. Their attitudes towards the safety of the guidelines and their willingness to comply with them was then measured.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 247
• Est. completion date: June 2010
• Est. primary completion date: June 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 39 Years to 49 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• women aged 39-49 seeing their gynecologist for routine preventive care

Exclusion Criteria:

• women not aged 39-49

• women with breast cancer

• women not able to read English

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Caregiver), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Attitude
• Breast Cancer
• Practice Guideline

Intervention

Other:
• read unfavorable article prior to answering questions
article title: "Taking a hit on healthcare- why that's women's work"
• read favorable article prior to answering questions
read "A Backlash of Mistrust"

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	UMassMemorial Medical Group- Auburn Gyn	Auburn	Massachusetts
United States	Shrewsbury Ob-Gyn	Shrewsbury	Massachusetts
United States	UMassMemorial Medical Group- OB-GYN	Shrewsbury	Massachusetts
United States	Women's Health of Central Mass	Worcester	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Massachusetts, Worcester

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Willingness to forgo mammograms from age 40-49		within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article	No
Secondary	Do you feel that the mammogram recommendations safe?		within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article	No
Secondary	Do attitudes regarding the breast cancer screening guidelines differ by acquaintance with breast cancer?		within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article	No
Secondary	Does willingness to forgo mammograms in their 40's differ by previous "false alarms" with mammography?		within 15 minutes of completion of reading assigned article	No

External Links

•   U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Guidelines for breast cancer screening