I-CaPP Programme- Pilot Study-Exploring communication of disease risk

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  Interventions for cancer prevention in primary care- Pilot study

• IRAS ID

  235313

• Contact name

  Juliet Usher-Smith

• Contact email

  jau20@medschl.cam.ac.uk

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Cambridge

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 10 months, 31 days

• Research summary

  It is estimated that approximately 40% of cases of cancer are attributable to lifestyle factors such as smoking, alcohol, diet, physical activity and weight, and nearly 600,000 cases in the UK could have been avoided in the past 5 years if people led healthier lifestyles. Prevention strategies are likely to require a combination of approaches aimed at the population as a whole, for example stopping smoking in public places, and approaches that focus on individuals. With over 300 million consultations taking place each year general practice provides an ideal opportunity to engage people in prevention. Brief interventions based in general practice have been shown to reduce smoking and alcohol consumption and increase physical activity and weight loss. With the exception of smoking cessation, however, almost all these interventions focus on cardiovascular disease (CVD) with little discussion around cancer. As a result little is known about how cancer risk information and advice on lifestyle factors that contribute to cancer risk sould be shared with patients. The NHS Health Check programme provides an opportunity to deliver this intervention alongside tools currently used to share risk information and lifestyle factors relating to CVD and diabetes.
  This study has three aims:
  1)To assess the feasibility and acceptability of implementing a very brief intervention in primary care. The intervention incorporates information about risk of cancer targeted at improving understanding of perceived vulnerability to cancer and increasing response-efficacy related to changes in behaviour to reduce risk of cancer.
  2)Pilot the majority of study procedures and measures
  3)To compare the responses of patients receiving a very brief intervention incorporating cancer risk within NHS Health Checks with patients receiving a usual NHS Health Check

• REC name

  East of England - Cambridge East Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  18/EE/0001

• Date of REC Opinion

  9 Feb 2018

• REC opinion

  Further Information Favourable Opinion