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Trial reportAmerican journal of public health2016

Harnessing the Question-Behavior Effect to Enhance Colorectal Cancer Screening in an mHealth Experiment.

Lea Hagoel, Efrat Neter, Nili Stein, Gad Rennert

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in American journal of public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Activation Versus Change as a Principle Underlying Intervention Strategies to Promote Health Behaviors.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2023
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  15. Translational Research in Cancer Screening: Long-Term Population-Action Bridges to Diffuse Adherence.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lea HagoelLea Hagoel, Nili Stein, and Gad Rennert are with the Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Efrat Neter is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, Israel.
Efrat NeterLea Hagoel, Nili Stein, and Gad Rennert are with the Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Efrat Neter is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, Israel.
Nili SteinLea Hagoel, Nili Stein, and Gad Rennert are with the Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Efrat Neter is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, Israel.
Gad RennertLea Hagoel, Nili Stein, and Gad Rennert are with the Department of Community Medicine and Epidemiology, Carmel Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. Efrat Neter is with the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ruppin Academic Center, Emeq Hefer, Israel.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo assess whether asking questions about a future behavior changes this behavior (i.e., the question-behavior effect) when applied to a population-level intervention to enhance colorectal cancer screening.

methodsIn 2013, text-message reminders were sent to a national sample of 50 000 Israeli women and men aged 50 to 74 years following a fecal occult blood test invitation. Participants were randomized into 4 intervention groups (2 interrogative reminders, with or without reference to social context; 2 noninterrogative reminders, with or without social context) and a no-intervention control group. The outcome was fecal occult blood test uptake (n = 48 091, following attrition).

resultsPerformance of fecal occult blood test was higher in the interrogative-reminder groups than in the other 3 groups (odds ratio = 1.11; 95% confidence interval = 1.05, 1.19); the effect size was small, varying in the different group comparisons from 0.03 to 0.06.

conclusionsThe question-behavior effect appears to be modestly effective in colorectal cancer screening, but the absolute number of potential screenees may translate into a clinically significant health promotion change.

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Reminder SystemsText MessagingAgedColorectal NeoplasmsEarly Detection of CancerFemaleHealth PromotionHumansIsraelMaleMiddle AgedModels, PsychologicalOccult BloodOdds RatioSocioeconomic FactorsTelemedicine

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PMID27631750
PMCPMC5055767

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