General practitioner outreach to boost cervical cancer screening participation
Intervention With General Practitioners to Improve Women's Participation in Cervical Cancer Screening
This project will test whether outreach from a general practitioner (phone, SMS, or email) helps women aged 25–65 in Île‑de‑France who are overdue for cervical screening to book and attend screening.
Quick facts
| Phase | Not applicable |
|---|---|
| Study type | Interventional |
| Enrollment | 11200 (estimated) |
| Ages | 25 Years to 65 Years |
| Sex | All |
| Sponsor | Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal Creteil Academic / other |
| Locations | 1 site (Créteil) |
| Trial ID | NCT06527456 on ClinicalTrials.gov |
What this trial studies
This is a cluster-randomized trial that randomizes GP practices in the UPEC/Créteil area to either usual care or an intervention where the GP or their team contacts overdue patients by phone, SMS, email, or other means to encourage screening. Randomization at the practice level reduces contamination between clinicians in the same office. The main outcome is participation in the national organized screening program (DOCCU) among women not up to date with screening. Contact methods and timing are left to each GP’s discretion, and inclusion is limited to women aged 25–65 who are eligible for DOCCU and registered with participating GPs.
Who should consider this trial
Good fit: Women aged 25 to 65 living in Île‑de‑France who are eligible for the DOCCU program, not up to date with cervical screening, and registered with a participating general practitioner in the UPEC CPTS area.
Not a fit: Patients who are already up to date with screening, have had a hysterectomy, are under active follow-up for cervical precancer or cancer, or explicitly refuse participation are unlikely to benefit from this outreach.
Why it matters
Potential benefit: If successful, the intervention could increase screening participation and lead to earlier detection and fewer advanced cervical cancers.
How similar studies have performed: Previous reminder and provider‑outreach studies have generally produced modest to moderate increases in screening uptake, so this intervention builds on established approaches.
Eligibility criteria
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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
Where this trial is running
Créteil
- Médecins généralistes dans le bassin de l'UPEC — Créteil, France (Recruiting)
Study contacts
- Study coordinator: Emilie FERRAT
- Email: emilie.ferrat@u-pec.fr
- Phone: 0633085225
How to participate
- Review the eligibility criteria above with your treating physician.
- Visit the official trial page on ClinicalTrials.gov for the most current contact information and recruitment status.
- Contact the listed study coordinator or principal investigator to request pre-screening. Pre-screening is free and never obligates you to enroll.