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NCT number NCT03122275
Other study ID # EPIUnit_SCANCC_2017
Secondary ID
Status Completed
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date April 27, 2017
Est. completion date April 27, 2018

Study information

Verified date May 2018
Source Universidade do Porto
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a stepwise approach, with increasing complexity and cost, to improve adherence to organized cervical cancer screening: step 1a - customized text message invitation; step 1b - customized automatic phone call invitation; step 2 - secretary phone call; step 3 - health professionals face-to-face appointment.

A population-based randomized controlled trial will be implemented in Portuguese urban and rural areas. Women eligible for cervical cancer screening will be randomized (1:1) to intervention and control. In the intervention group, women will be invited for screening through text messages, automatic phone calls, manual phone calls and health professional appointments, to be applied sequentially to participants remaining non-adherent after each step. Control will be the standard of care (invitation by written letter).

As primary objectives, we intend to test the superiority of interventions based on step 1 (1a+1b) and multistage interventions based on steps 1 and 2 and steps 1 to 3, based on intention-to-treat analyses.


Description:

The secondary objectives will be the following:

1. To test the non-inferiority of interventions based on step 1a and step 1 (1a+1b), considering a non-inferiority limit of 5%;

2. To test the superiority of the specific components of the multistage intervention corresponding to step 2 and step 3;

3. To quantify the differences in adherence to cervical cancer screening, for interventions based on step 1 (1a+1b) and multistage interventions based on steps 1 and 2 and steps 1 to 3, between:

1. Urban and rural areas;

2. Younger and older population;

3. Deprived and wealthy population;

4. Never vs. ever users of screening;

5. History of regular vs. irregular participation in screening programs.

4. To quantify the differences in adherence to cervical cancer screening when using a positive or a neutral content of text messages and automatic phone calls, in step 1;

5. To estimate the proportion of women who were performing cervical cancer screening in private health care services who started to be screened in an organized cervical cancer screening program, after a nurse face-to-face appointment at their primary care unit.

Intention-to-treat analysis will be used as primary strategy for all comparisons between interventions and control. Secondary per-protocol analysis will also be conducted. Binary logistic regression may be used to control for confounding, or in secondary analyses of the isolate effects of steps 1a, 2 and 3.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 1220
Est. completion date April 27, 2018
Est. primary completion date April 27, 2018
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender Female
Age group 25 Years to 49 Years
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria:

- Women aged between 25 and 49 years

- Medical registration at any of the primary health care units selected for this study

- Eligible for cervical cancer screening*

- *Defined as all women aged between 25 and 60 years old who do not verify any of the following criteria: hysterectomized, active cervical cancer disease, currently undergoing cervical cancer treatment or did not start sexual activity.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unavailability of mobile phone number

Study Design


Intervention

Other:
Customized text message invitation ( Step 1a)
Personalized text messages, automatically sent by Smart Message v.3.1 software. These text messages intend to invite women to cervical cancer screening
Customized automatic phone call invitation (Step 1b)
Personalized phone call, not operator dependent, automatically sent by Smart-Interactive Voice Response v.1.1 software These phone calls intend to invite women to cervical cancer screening
Secretary phone call (Step 2)
Manual phone call, performed by a trained secretary. These phone calls invite women to cervical cancer screening, but will only be used after automatic strategies (customized text messages and phone calls)
Health professional face-to-face appointment (Step 3)
Women randomized to experimental arm, who do not undergo cervical cancer screening after automatic invitation or manual phone call, receive this intervention. First, women are contacted through a phone call, performed by a health professional, inviting them for a face-to-face appointment at her primary care unit. During appointments, the health professional understands possible barriers felt by women for not undergoing cervical cancer screening. Health professionals will try to overcome these barriers, using pre-defined arguments and facts. Finally, women are invited to perform screening.
Written Letter
A written letter will be used to invite eligible women to cervical cancer screening. This intervention will be used only for women randomized to active comparator arm.

Locations

Country Name City State
Portugal ACeS Porto Ocidental Porto
Portugal ACeS Marão e Douro Norte Vila Real

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
João Firmino Domingues Barbosa Machado Universidade do Porto

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Adherence to cervical cancer screening (step1) Proportion/cumulative proportion of women who performed cervical cancer screening on scheduled date, among those who were invited to undergo it, after step 1 or sequences of steps from 1 to 3 Up to 20 months
Secondary Adherence to cervical cancer screening (steps 1a, 2 and 3) Proportion of women who performed cervical cancer screening on scheduled date, among those who were invited to undergo it, after step 1a, after step 2 or after step 3 Up to 20 months
Secondary Text message status Proportion of received text messages, from those that were sent Up to 20 months
Secondary Automatic phone call status Proportion of delivered automatic phone calls, from those that were sent Up to 20 months
Secondary Organized screening Proportion of women undergoing cervical cancer screening in a private health institution who changed to organized cervical cancer screening Up to 20 months
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