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Brief Title: Conducting Outreach to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Among Underscreened Patients
Official Title: Conducting Outreach to Improve Cervical Cancer Screening Rates Among Underscreened Patients at an Urban Community Health Center
Study ID: NCT02427399
Brief Summary: The purpose of this project is to determine whether outreach to HIV-negative patients who are overdue for a Pap smear at a New England urban community health center can increase cervical cancer screening rates. It additionally seeks to determine which form of outreach - via letter, email, phone, or a mixture of those modalities- is most effective among these patients.
Detailed Description: To the investigators' knowledge, this study will be the first to assess the efficacy of email in cervical cancer screening outreach in a randomized controlled trial. It will also be one of the few randomized controlled trials to directly compare different outreach media directly, as opposed to different variations within a single medium (e.g. two different types of letters). Lastly, given the unique patient demographic makeup at Fenway, including a significant number of lesbian, bisexual and transgender patients, secondary subanalyses have the potential to significantly add to the investigators' knowledge of what media work best in conducting cervical cancer screening outreach with sexual and gender minorities, who are disproportionately underscreened compared to heterosexual cis-gendered women.
Minimum Age: 21 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT
Sex: FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers: Yes
Name: Jennifer Potter, MD
Affiliation: Fenway Community Health
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR