Comprehensibility of Colorectal Cancer Screening Educational Materials: Effects on Patient Knowledge and Motivation

Colorectal Neoplasms Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Comprehensibility of Colorectal Cancer Screening Educational Materials on Patient Knowledge and Motivation: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00965965
• Other study ID #: 200917361-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 20, 2009
• Last updated: April 26, 2012
• Start date: August 2009
• Est. completion date: April 2010

Study information

• Verified date: April 2012
• Source: University of California, Davis
• 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 is to determine whether a newly developed patient education document concerning colorectal cancer screening will be better understood and have greater effects on patient knowledge of and motivation for screening than a standard educational document.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 60
• Est. completion date: April 2010
• Est. primary completion date: April 2010
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 50 Years to 75 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Receive primary care at one of the participating outpatient offices

• Age 50-75

• Able to read and speak English

• Adequate vision, hearing, and hand function to read printed documents, communicate with research staff, answer questionnaires, and otherwise participate

• Not up to date for colorectal cancer screening (defined as fecal occult blood test within 1 year, flexible sigmoidoscopy within 5 years, or colonoscopy within 10 years)

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Colorectal Neoplasms

Intervention

Behavioral:
• New colorectal cancer screening patient education document
The newly developed educational document was created accounting for health behavioral models (such as the Expanded Health Behavior Model, Social Cognitive Theory, and the Transtheoretical Model) and related research studies indicating the factors that most strongly and positively influence patients' cognitions regarding colorectal cancer screening and are, in turn, predictive of actual colorectal cancer screening behavior.
• Traditional colorectal cancer screening education document
The traditional educational document is a slightly edited version of materials freely available on the National Cancer Institute (NCI) web site, used in this study with the permission of the NCI.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of California Davis Medical Center	Sacramento	California

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Davis	California Academy of Family Physicians

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Comprehension of randomly assigned educational document		Immediately after receiving randomly assigned study intervention (that same day)	No
Secondary	Colorectal cancer screening knowledge		Immediately after receiving randomly assigned study intervention (that same day)	No
Secondary	Self-efficacy for undergoing colorectal cancer screening		Immediately after receiving randomly assigned study intervention (that same day)	No
Secondary	Perceived barriers to undergoing colorectal cancer screening		Immediately after receiving randomly assigned study intervention (that same day)	No
Secondary	Readiness to undergo colorectal cancer screening		Immediately after receiving randomly assigned study intervention (that same day)	No