Status:

COMPLETED

Mammography Reminders for Encouraging Women to Undergo Regular Mammography Screenings for Breast Cancer

Lead Sponsor:

UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Breast Cancer

Eligibility:

FEMALE

40-75 years

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Mammography reminders may encourage women to undergo regular mammography screenings for breast cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized clinical trial is studying three different mammography remin...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * Compare the effectiveness of mammography reminder interventions using usual care reminder vs enhanced automated phone reminder vs enhanced letter reminder in increasing the proportion o...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Inclusion criteria:
  • Women members of The North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan (SHP)
  • Age 40-75
  • Enrolled with the SHP for at least 24 months, not covered by COBRA or Medicare primary
  • Based on claims data, women will have had their last mammogram 6-8 months ago so reminders will arrive 2 months prior to due date for next mammogram.
  • Exclusion criteria:
  • Unable to speak and understand English. We lack the resources to adapt the intervention appropriate for non-English speakers. Moreover, we do not know if the interventions lend themselves to cultural translation. We regard this as a next logical research activity.
  • Have breast cancer or have some other illness that precludes participation. Women diagnosed with breast cancer before the study are ineligible; their screening schedules are consistent with recommendations for the general population. However, if women develop breast cancer during the study, we would ask them a reduced set of questions.
  • We selected age 75 as the upper limit, because there are too few women over age 75 to permit meaningful statistical analysis (\<100 women in all). The SHP is largely a working population. We wish that it were possible both to include and analyze women older than age 75. This is a limitation of the population we have selected.

Exclusion

    Key Trial Info

    Start Date :

    September 1 2004

    Trial Type :

    OBSERVATIONAL

    Allocation :

    ACTUAL

    End Date :

    October 1 2010

    Estimated Enrollment :

    3547 Patients enrolled

    Trial Details

    Trial ID

    NCT01148875

    Start Date

    September 1 2004

    End Date

    October 1 2010

    Last Update

    January 20 2016

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