NCT07220018Recruiting
Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Homeless
mHealth Navigation Using SMS Texting to Improve CRC Screening Among Homeless Persons
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 16 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study is designed to assess the effect of implementing a text messaging strategy for colorectal cancer screening among homeless persons aged 45-75 years, who are not up to date on colorectal cancer screening, in shelter clinics in NYC. This mixed-methods study uses a randomized clinical trial design and semi-structured interviews.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 588 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 21 Oct 2025
- Start date
- 14 Oct 2026
- Primary completion date
- 2 Jun 2030
- Lead sponsor
- George Washington University
- Diseases
- Colorectal cancer
- NCT number
- NCT07220018
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 588
- From 14 Oct 2026 to the primary completion date, 2 Jun 2030
- 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
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Other illness
- known active/uncontrolled illness rendering homeless persons to undergo screening, CRC in the past 2 years, colectomy, Inflammatory Bowel Dis., Familial Adenomatous Polyposis or other colorectal diseases in which screening is different from average CRC risk and methods, inability to consent, serious/significant comorbidity where life expectancy is limited or screening is not recommended, which will be verified by their respective provider
- any condition preventing participants from providing informed consent.
Other
- inability to read and respond to SMS texts
Who the study is looking for
- Homeless persons aged 45 - 75 years old, with no up-to-date colorectal cancer screening defined as: 1) no colonoscopy in the past 10 years, or 2) no Flexible sigmoidoscopy, Digital Contrast Barium Enema, or CT colonoscopy in the past 5 years, or 3) no Fecal Immunochemical Test/Fecal Occult Blood in the past 12 months or mt-sDNA/Cologuard Test in the past three years
- English or Spanish speaking
- currently presenting to the shelter clinics for medical care
- connected to multidisciplinary social and health services in NYC shelter clinics
Age in the registry: 45 years to 75 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| George Washington University Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Washington D.C. | United States | Recruiting |
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