Organized screening programmes should consider using advance notification letters to improve programme participation. To Whom It May Concern: You are listed by the Virginia State Corporation Commission as the registered agent for. Introduce your letter with a formal salutation, address the recipient by name and, if you prefer, use a standard greeting such as Dear First name, or Hello First name. Risk or lay advocacy strategies did not improve screening participation. The effect may be due to a population shift in readiness to undertake screening, and is consistent with the Transtheoretical Model of behaviour change.

This effect was apparent as early as two weeks from date of offer Advance Notification: 151/600 (25.2%) versusġ09/600 (18.2%, RR 1.38, 95% CI 1.11-1.73).Īdvance notification significantly increased screening participation. Participation was significantly greater than CONTROL only in the Advance Notification group (Relative risk 1.23, 95% confidence interval 1.06-1.43). Associations between participation and sociodemographic variables were explored.Īt 12 weeks after invitation, participation was:Ģ37/600 (39.5%) Risk: 242/600 (40.3%) Advocacy: 216/600 (36.0%) and Advance Notification: 290/600 (48.3%). Programme participation rates were determined for each strategy relative to control. Standard invitation-to-screen letter explaining risk of CRC and the concept, value and method of screening (b) Risk: invitation with additional messages related to CRC risk (c) Advocacy: invitation with additional messages related to advocacy for screening from previous screening programme participants and (d) Advance Notification: first, a letter introducing CONTROL letter messages followed by the standard invitation-to-screen. In total, 2400 people aged 50-74 years were randomly allocated to one of four CRC screening invitation strategies: (a) To determine the impact of novel invitation strategies on population participation in faecal immunochemical test (FIT)-based colorectal cancer (CRC) screening.Ī community screening programme in Adelaide, South Australia.

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