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

University of California, Davis60 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Colorectal Neoplasms

Interventions

New colorectal cancer screening patient education documentBEHAVIORAL

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 documentBEHAVIORAL

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.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 50 YearsMax age: 75 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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)

Locations (1)

University of California Davis Medical Center

Sacramento, California, United States