NCT04492215: AMDepCCR

General Practitioners and Participation Rate in ColoRectal Cancer Screening

Status unknown NA Last updated 7 April 2023

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Interaction between patient and trained general practitioners in motivational interviewing in Colorectal Cancer in 902 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

31 May 2021

Primary endpoint
31 May 2023

31 May 2025

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	University Hospital, Brest
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	diagnostic
Enrollment	902
Start date	31 May 2021
Primary completion	31 May 2023
Estimated completion	31 May 2025
Sites	53 locations across France

Drugs / interventions tested

• Interaction between patient and trained general practitioners in motivational interviewing

Conditions studied

• Colorectal Cancer — all drugs for Colorectal Cancer →

Sponsor

University Hospital, Brest

Who can join

Adults 50 to 74, any sex, with Colorectal Cancer. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Colorectal cancer is the 2nd leading cause of cancer mortality in France. However this cancer is preventable in the majority of cases by early detection of adenomas.

In France, there is organized colorectal cancer screening, which relies on general practitioners (GPs). Tests delivered by GPs are performed in 89% of cases. However, GPs do not systematically offer the test, for time management and communication reasons. Patients expect their GPs to offer the test and to focus on their expectations. A previous study conducted on GPs showed that training in communication and motivational interviewing increases the number of tests performed by 12.2%.

In order to facilitate the promotion of screening, the investigators would like to develop a training programme for GPs focusing on the application of Motivational Interviewing (MI) techniques to the promotion of colorectal cancer screening.

Motivational Interviewing is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.

This study is a multicenter trial in general medicine. In this randomized trial the 902 subjects will be included prospectively by the general practitioners (GP) participating in the study.

As a first step, general practitioners who have never participated in Motivational Interviewing training will be recruited and split into 2 groups by randomization, an intervention group and a control group. The interventional group will then undergo a 3 times 2-day training in Motivational Interviewing.

In a second step, the patients will be included by those GP and a self-questionnaire will be send at the inclusion and after 6, 12 and 24 months. The evaluation of the number of tests performed and the analyse of the Health Belief Model (HBM) self-questionnaire will be carried out.

At 24 months, there will be an evaluation of the denial motivation questionnaire for patients who have not participated in organized colorectal cancer screening.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Improvement of participation rate in colorectal cancer (CRC) screening by training general practitioners in motivational interviewing (AmDepCCR).
   Aujoulat P, Le Goff D, Dany A, Robaskiewick M, et al · · 2022 · cited 4× · PMID 35164836 · DOI 10.1186/s13063-022-06056-8
2. Current Progress in Clinical Research in Secondary Prevention and Early Detection of Colorectal Cancer.
   Partyka O, Pajewska M, Czerw A, Deptała A, et al · · 2025 · cited 2× · PMID 39941735 · DOI 10.3390/cancers17030367