Spots Global Cancer Trial Database for Increasing Access to Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrants

The following info and data is provided "as is" to help patients around the globe.
We do not endorse or review these studies in any way.

Trial Identification

Brief Title: Increasing Access to Breast Cancer Screening Among Immigrants

Official Title: A Randomized Trial to Increase Access to Breast Cancer Screening by Invitation Language Among Immigrants in Norway

Study ID: NCT04672265

Conditions

Cancer Screening

Interventions

Mother tongue and Norwegian

Study Description

Brief Summary: The investigators aim to test whether inviting immigrants to breast cancer screening with a letter in their mother tongue in addition to the standard letter in Norwegian changes screening uptake in these immigrant groups, compared with a comparable group who receive the invitation in Norwegian only,

Detailed Description: Women in selected immigrant groups according to birth country will be invited to screening and randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive the screening invitation and information material 1) in the major official native language in the country the invitee is born in addition to Norwegian (intervention group), or 2) only Norwegian (control). The 13 selected countries of origin are Poland, the Philippines, Pakistan, Somalia and Arabic speaking countries (Iraq, Syria, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt, Palestine, Sudan and Tunisia). The five intervention languages will thus be Polish, English, Urdu, Somali and Arabic.