title: A Randomized Trial to Compare Alternative Educational Interventions to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening in a Hard-to-Reach Urban Minority Population with Health Insurance.
abstract: This randomized controlled trial assessed different educational approaches for increasing colorectal cancer screening uptake in a sample of primarily non-US born urban minority individuals, over aged 50, with health insurance, and out of compliance with screening guidelines. In one group, participants were mailed printed educational material (n = 180); in a second, participants' primary care physicians received academic detailing to improve screening referral and follow-up practices (n = 185); in a third, physicians received academic detailing and participants received tailored telephone education (n = 199). Overall, 21.5% of participants (n = 121) received appropriate screening within one year of randomization. There were no statistically significant pairwise differences between groups in screening rate. Among those 60 years of age or older, however, the detailing plus telephone education group had a higher screening rate than the print group (27.3 vs. 7.7%, p = .02). Different kinds of interventions will be required to increase colorectal cancer screening among the increasingly small population segment that remains unscreened. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02392143.
authors: Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, Box 114, New York, NY, 10027, USA, ceb35@columbia.edu.
authors: Charles E
authors: CE
authors: Basch
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Zybert
authors: Randi L
authors: RL
authors: Wolf
authors: Corey H
authors: CH
authors: Basch
authors: Ralph
authors: R
authors: Ullman
authors: Celia
authors: C
authors: Shmukler
authors: Fionnuala
authors: F
authors: King
authors: Alfred I
authors: AI
authors: Neugut
authors: Steven
authors: S
authors: Shea
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D055088:Early Detection of Cancer; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009519:New York City; D058007:Physicians, Primary Care; D011177:Postal Service; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013689:Telephone; D014505:Urban Population