Clinical trial · Interventional
Testing a Behavioural Approach to Improving Cancer Screening Rates
Testing a Behavioural Approach to Improving Cancer Screening Rates Through Increased Use of Primary Care Feedback Reports
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
Family doctors can play a critical role in successfully arranging cancer screening tests to occur, especially if they know which patients are due for these tests. However, they don't always interact with or take advantage of registry data to this end. For example, in Ontario, the Screening Activity Report provides exactly this information to family doctors, helping them identify their patients who are overdue for screening. Unfortunately, less than half of family doctors regularly use the Screening Activity Report even though they get monthly email reminders. One possible reason is that the reminders they receive are not designed to compel action. They are easy for family doctors to miss or dismiss. This study will compare multiple different ways of designing the reminders. The different versions of the email are tested in a 2\^3 factorial trial testing three behaviour change techniques to see which ones will lead to more family physicians interacting with the Screening Activity Report and at increasing the number of patients that get all the appropriate screening tests for cervical, breast, and/or colon cancer.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Trial | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Early Detection of Cancer | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (3)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anticipated regret | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Material incentive | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
| Problem solving | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (8)
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Email #1: FULLY TURNED OFF
- description
- No behavioural change techniques (BCTs) 'turned on' in the email. The email would contain only standardized content.
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Email #2: ANTICIPATED REGRET
- description
- Anticipated regret content + standardized content
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Anticipated regret
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- Email #3: MATERIAL INCENTIVE
- description
- Material incentive content + standardized content
- interventionNames
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
Show eligibility criteria text
Family physicians are eligible if they have signed up for the SAR and already receive reminder emails as part of their registration process for the SAR with CCO.
References
Publications (1)
- DERIVEDVaisson G, Witteman HO, Bouck Z, Bravo CA, Desveaux L, Llovet D, Presseau J, Saragosa M, Taljaard M, Umar S, Grimshaw JM, Tinmouth J, Ivers NM. Testing Behavior Change Techniques to Encourage Primary Care Physicians to Access Cancer Screening Audit and Feedback Reports: Protocol for a Factorial Randomized Experiment of Email Content. JMIR Res Protoc. 2018 Feb 16;7(2):e11. doi: 10.2196/resprot.9090. PMID 29453190