Intervention With General Practitioners to Improve Women's Participation in Cervical Cancer Screening
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: participation of the general practitioner.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Cervical Cancer. Basic parameters: 25 years — 65 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- France
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Overview
In France, cervical cancer is the 12th most common female cancer with nearly 3,000 new cases per year. Since 2018, a national Organized Cervical Cancer Screening program (DOCCU) has been set up and concerns all asymptomatic women aged 25 to 65. This program, managed by the Regional Cancer Screening Coordination Centers (CRCDC), invites women who have not taken a sample within the recommended time frame to consult for screening. However, only 59% of patients participated. The intervention of the general practitioner, an essential player in prevention, could allow for better awareness. The objective of the INDIGO study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the intervention of a general practitioner on the participation rate in the DOCCU of patients who are not up to date with their screening.
Detailed description
This is a cluster-randomized trial. Randomization will be performed at the GP practice level to limit the potential contamination bias between doctors within the same practice. GP practices will be randomized either to the 'usual practice' arm or the 'intervention' arm."
If they are in the "intervention" group, they or one of the professionals in their team will contact the patient (phone call, SMS, email, etc.), to encourage her to make an appointment to carry out the screening. Contact arrangements are left to the discretion of each general practitioner..
If they are in the "Usual practice" group, they will use their usual practices to encourage screening.
Interventions
- Other participation of the general practitioner
participation of the general practitioner in encouraging cervical cancer screening
Primary outcome measures
- screening participation rate [Time frame: 12 month]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Woman aged 25 to 65 living in Ile-De-France
- Eligible for DOCCU (not hysterectomized, not followed for a pre-cancerous or cancerous lesion of the cervix)
- Having declared the investigating general practitioner as a treating physician (MT) and whose MT practices in the territory of a CPTS in the UPEC area
- Affiliate to a social security scheme or beneficiary of such a scheme
Exclusion criteria
- Patient already included in a study on DOCCU
- Patient excluded from organized screening (cervical cancer, hysterectomy).
- Patient's opposition to participating in the study
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
France · 1 center
- Médecins généralistes dans le bassin de l'UPEC — Créteil
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06527456 · INDIGO