NCT06324409Completed
ImmigrantScreen Telephone Reminder Trial in Colorectal Cancer Screening
Increasing Access to Colorectal Cancer Screening Among Immigrants
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Apr 2025
Brief summary (registry, in English)
The goal of this randomized trial is to test the effect of a reminder telephone call in the official native language in the country where the invitee is born, in addition to the reminder letter in Norwegian on participation in the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program in Pakistani and Somalian immigrants, compared to the reminder letter in Norwegian only. The main question it aims to answer is: •Does a reminder telephone call in the language of origin increase participation in colorectal cancer screening in Pakistani and Somalian immigrants in Norway? Participants in this trial are individuals with Pakistan or Somalia as their country of birth invited to the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program, who have not participated by mailing a faecal sample to the screening laboratory. In the intervention group, the participants will be called in the official language in their country of origin, to inform about colorectal cancer screening, in addition to the reminder letter in Norwegian language sent to all non-participants. Participants in the comparison group will only be sent the reminder letter in Norwegian language. The researchers will compare differences in the participation rate in the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program between the intervention and comparison groups.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 400 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Mar 2024
- Start date
- 15 May 2024
- Primary completion date
- 31 Dec 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Norwegian Institute of Public Health
- Diseases
- Colorectal cancer, Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT06324409
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 400
- From 15 May 2024 to the primary completion date, 31 Dec 2024
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.
Lab values
- Individuals whose faecal screening sample is registered in the screening laboratory 1) on the same day or the day after the reminder letter is sent out (applies to those who receive a digital reminder), or 2) on the same day or up to three days after the reminder letter is sent out (applies to those who receive a mailed reminder letter)
Other
- Individuals whose mailed reminder letter is returned to sender
Who the study is looking for
- Pakistan or Somalia registered as country of birth
- Invited to the first round of faecal screening test in the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program in Norway
- Reminder letter sent after no received faecal sample in the screening laboratory within six weeks from mailing of the faecal screening sample kit from the screening organizers
Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwegian Institute of Public Health Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Oslo | Norway | Unknown status |
Related publications
- Effect of reminder phone calls in the language of origin on colorectal cancer screening participation among immigrants in Norway: a randomised controlled trial.Lancet Reg Health Eur · 2026 · PMID 41868191
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