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Protocol: Feasibility of an Online Intervention to Increase Awareness of Gynaecological Cancer in UK Students

NCT07147283 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 110

Last updated 2025-08-29

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Summary

In the UK more than 2500 young people are diagnosed with cancer each year, including gynaecological cancers) and almost a third will be diagnosed within accident and emergency departments. Early diagnosis is essential to improve cancer outcomes. However, despite awareness of warning signs, most young people would delay or avoid seeking help altogether. The key to lifelong monitoring and early detection of cancer is early exposure to cancer information at a formative age. University is seen as a key life transition phase which will enable students to establish positive health behaviours.

We have developed an online intervention to change behaviour for university students to support the early detection and intention to seek help for symptoms of gynaecological cancer. The intervention consists of a gynaecological cancer awareness educational film and a help sheet to plan future help seeking. The aim of this study is to find out if the intervention is acceptable for participants and practicable to run.

Methods We aim to recruit 86 participants who are women (or those at risk of gynaecological cancer e.g., have ovaries, a uterus, cervix) over 18 at UK universities who can understand English. The educational film provides information about the signs and symptoms of the five different forms of gynaecological cancer and will be delivered online to participants. The help sheet encourages participants to self-monitor for gynaecological symptoms and then identify cues to help-seeking/action. Cancer awareness and willingness to seek help for symptoms will be assessed by questionnaires four times at the beginning, and at 4 weeks, 3 months and 6 months). Interviews will be carried out with participants to understand how acceptable the intervention is.

Results Acceptability will be measured by looking at how many people have been recruited and how many have dropped out of the study, how long they have taken to watch the film and to complete the help sheet. Interviews will be analysed by theme.

Conclusion We hope that the findings from this study will provide evidence of how the intervention can increase cancer awareness and likelihood of help seeking for cancer symptoms. The long-term goal is to use these findings to use this intervention in other universities in the UK.

Conditions

  • Intervention

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational film and volitional help sheet

The intervention consists of a bespoke online gynaecological cancer awareness educational film and a volitional help sheet to plan future gynaecological help seeking and monitoring based on implementation intention principles \[24\]. The intervention will be delivered online using Qualtrics™.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Leeds Beckett University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Trish Holch, PhD · Leeds Beckett University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
39 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-20
Primary Completion
2024-08-21
Completion
2024-08-24

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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