A Phase 3 interventional study of Multimedia Education and Print Media in Colorectal Cancer, sponsored by Trinity Health Of New England. Completed at 3 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 50 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2012-09-07.
Sponsored by Trinity Health Of New England · Phase 3, Interventional, and Prevention
The objective of this study is to compare the effectiveness of multimedia and print tools designed to provide patients at safety-net clinics with comprehensible information about colorectal cancer screening and motivate them to complete screening.The print and multimedia interventions were constructed with parallel content to allow valid comparison of format-related effects on knowledge and screening rates.These easy to use tools will provide under served patients at community health centers with clear and consistent messages about colorectal Cancer(CRC) and CRC screening, delivered immediately before the patients see a doctor.
Specific Aims
Determine whether showing patients a multimedia program achieves higher CRC screening rates than does a print booklet with equivalent messages.
Despite the clear benefits of screening for early detection and prevention of colorectal cancer, as many as half of eligible adults remain unscreened. Poor and under served populations, particularly African American and Latino/Hispanic adults, are at greatest risk for noncompliance with recommended tests. Health education strategies developed to date have led to relatively minimal gains, resulting in little translation to routine clinical practice. This is especially true in more difficult, resource-strained practice settings, such as community health centers.
The interventions in the proposed study draw on communication science to optimize message design, use communication technology to optimize message delivery and include parallel content in both print and multimedia versions to allow comparison of format-related effects on both knowledge and screening rates.The multimedia and print tools are based on patient education programs that we developed with extensive attention to theory as well as community member input.
5,599 studies on the registry are indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms; 1,459 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 920 is above the median of 77 across 4,123 interventional studies indexed under Colorectal Neoplasms.
Browse Colorectal Neoplasms studies →Trinity Health Of New England is the lead sponsor of 19 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.
Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.
Exclusion Criteria:
Multimedia education tool - A culturally competent video explaining the importance of and the process of colorectal cancer screening
Behavioral: Multimedia Education
Print media - A culturally competent printed brochure explaining the importance of and the process of colorectal cancer screening
Behavioral: Print Media
Usual and customary waiting room process - Usual and customary office waiting period with access to standard nationally generated colorectal cancer screening informational material in the waiting room and/or exam room.
Behavioral: Usual and customary waiting room process
A four minute exposure to an educational video with controlled content on the importance of colorectal cancer screening and explaining the processes and procedures.
Also known as: colon cancer, communication, patient education
Exposure to a printed brochure with controlled content on the importance of colorectal cancer screening and explaining the processes and procedures.
Also known as: colon cancer, communication, education
No specialized educational intervention to promote colorectal cancer screening or to explain the process
Also known as: colon cancer, communitcation, education
Comparison of the acceptance of colorectal cancer screening by patients who view print or multimedia educational tools
Time frame: 3 months post visit
Role of race/ethnicity and literacy levels on the comparative effects if the intervention
Time frame: At scheduled appointment
Comparative knowledge of colorectal cancer screening by patients who view the print or multi-media educational tools.
Time frame: At the scheduled patient visit
This study is completed, as verified in Sep 2012. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.
Trinity Health Of New England