Author, as appears in the article.: Vives N; Farre A; Ibañez-Sanz G; Vidal C; Binefa G; Milà N; Perez-Lacasta MJ; Travier N; Benito L; Espinàs JA; Bagaria G; Garcia M
Department: Economia
URV's Author/s: Espinas Pinol, Josep Alfons / Pérez Lacasta, Maria José
Keywords: Text messaging Outcome assessment, health care Middle aged Mass screening Male Humans Female Colorectal-cancer Colorectal neoplasms Breast neoplasms Aged
Abstract: © 2021 Vives et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Background Short message service (SMS) based interventions are widely used in healthcare and have shown promising results to improve cancer screening programs. However, more research is still needed to implement SMS in the screening process. We present a study protocol to assess the impact on health and economics of three targeted SMS-based interventions in population-based cancer screening programs. Methods/Design The M-TICs study is a randomized controlled trial with a formal process evaluation. Participants aged 50-69 years identified as eligible from the colorectal cancer (CRC) and breast cancer (BC) screening program of the Catalan Institute of Oncology (Catalonia, Spain) will be randomly assigned to receive standard invitation procedure (control group) or SMSbased intervention to promote participation. Two interventions will be conducted in the CRC screening program: 1) Screening invitation reminder: Those who do not participate in the CRC screening within 6 weeks of invite will receive a reminder (SMS or letter); 2) Reminder to complete and return fecal immunochemical test (FIT) kit: SMS reminder versus no intervention to individuals who have picked up a FIT kit at the pharmacy and they have not returned it after 14 days. The third intervention will be performed in the BC screening program. Women who had been screened previously will receive an SMS invitation or a letter invitation to participate in the screening. As a primary objective we will assess the impact on participation for each intervention. The secondary objectives will be to analyze the cost-effectiveness of the interventions and to assess participants' perceptions. Expected results The results from this randomized controlled trial will provide important empirical evidence for the use of mobile phone technology as a tool for improving population-based cancer screening programs. These results may influence the cancer screening invitation procedure in future routine practice.
Research group: Research Group on Economic Evaluation and Health (GRAES), Reus, Spain.
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licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: mariajose.perez@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-5906-5632
Record's date: 2024-09-28
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7822525/
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Plos One. 16 (1 January): e0245806-
APA: Vives N; Farre A; Ibañez-Sanz G; Vidal C; Binefa G; Milà N; Perez-Lacasta MJ; Travier N; Benito L; Espinàs JA; Bagaria G; Garcia M (2021). Text messaging as a tool to improve cancer screening programs (M-TICS Study): A randomized controlled trial protocol. Plos One, 16(1 January), e0245806-. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245806
Article's DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0245806
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2021
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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