[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"health-study-detail:100650252":3},{"organization":4,"armGroups":7,"interventions":25,"overallOfficials":39,"centralContacts":46,"locations":52,"responsibleParty":72,"collaborators":30,"id":74,"slug":75,"hasResults":76,"nctId":77,"briefTitle":78,"officialTitle":79,"acronym":30,"eligibilityCriteria":80,"healthyVolunteers":76,"sex":81,"minAge":82,"maxAge":30,"enrollmentInfo":83,"targetDuration":30,"studyType":86,"phases":87,"briefSummary":89,"conditions":90,"keywords":92,"overallStatus":97,"whyStopped":30,"lastUpdateSubmitDate":98,"lastUpdatePostDateStruct":99,"startDateStruct":102,"completionDateStruct":104,"leadSponsor":106,"locationsCount":107},{"fullName":5,"class":6},"University of Huddersfield","OTHER",[8,14,19],{"label":9,"type":10,"description":11,"interventionNames":12},"Arm 1","EXPERIMENTAL","Participants assigned to this arm will receive a structured community health nurse (CHN)-led breast cancer screening education programme delivered over five months. Trained CHNs will facilitate ten biweekly 60 minute interactive sessions, with each month focusing on a specific theme: understanding breast cancer and screening, risk factors, signs and symptoms, costs and benefits of screening, and building confidence and intention to undergo screening. CHNs will receive standardized training on the study protocol, educational content, and facilitation methods to ensure intervention fidelity. Sessions will incorporate group discussions and culturally appropriate take-home pamphlets to enhance engagement. Attendance will be monitored, post-session reflections conducted, and follow-up phone calls made to participants who miss sessions. Five CHNs will each facilitate five groups of eleven participants.",[13],"Other: Community Health Nurse-Led Breast Cancer Screening Education",{"label":15,"type":10,"description":16,"interventionNames":17},"Arm 2","Participants assigned to this arm will receive a structured breast cancer screening text messaging programme over five months. Messages will be delivered twice weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays between 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. The intervention will cover the same monthly themes as the CHN-led arm to ensure consistency: understanding breast cancer and screening, risk factors, signs and symptoms, costs and benefits of screening, and building confidence and intention to undergo screening. Message content will be evidence-informed and culturally appropriate, drawing on established breast cancer education materials and previous intervention studies. The timing and frequency of message delivery are based on evidence indicating that twice-weekly messaging within these hours enhances participant engagement and message uptake",[18],"Other: Text Messaging Breast Cancer Screening Educational Intervention",{"label":20,"type":21,"description":22,"interventionNames":23},"Arm 3","PLACEBO_COMPARATOR","Participants assigned to the control arm will receive the standard community-based healthcare routinely provided through existing primary healthcare services, with no additional breast cancer screening intervention. Standard care consists of general health education delivered by community health workers and focuses on topics such as environmental hygiene, healthy eating, physical activity, family planning, reproductive health, and the importance of seeking timely healthcare. No structured breast cancer education or text messaging will be provided during the study period. This group will serve as the comparator for evaluating the effectiveness of the CHN-led and text messaging interventions.",[24],"Other: Control Arm - standard of care",[26,31,35],{"type":6,"name":27,"description":28,"armGroupLabels":29,"otherNames":30},"Community Health Nurse-Led Breast Cancer Screening Education","The Community Health Nurse-led intervention differs from conventional health education programmes by using trained community health nurses who are embedded within the local healthcare system to deliver structured, interactive, and culturally responsive breast cancer screening education. Unlike one-time awareness campaigns, this intervention provides repeated biweekly sessions over five months, allowing progressive learning, reinforcement of key messages, and opportunities to address participant concerns and misconceptions.",[9],null,{"type":6,"name":32,"description":33,"armGroupLabels":34,"otherNames":30},"Text Messaging Breast Cancer Screening Educational Intervention","The text messaging intervention is distinguished by its use of a structured, evidence-informed mobile health approach to deliver breast cancer screening information directly to participants' mobile phones. Unlike generic health reminder messages, the intervention follows the same thematic structure as the CHN-led programme, ensuring delivery of comprehensive breast cancer screening education rather than isolated screening prompts.",[15],{"type":6,"name":36,"description":37,"armGroupLabels":38,"otherNames":30},"Control Arm - standard of care","The control group will receive standard community-level healthcare information routinely provided through existing primary healthcare services and will not receive any additional breast cancer screening-specific education, text messages, or structured intervention activities during the study period. This distinguishes the control condition from the intervention groups by maintaining usual care while allowing evaluation of the added effect of community health nurse-led education and text messaging interventions.",[20],[40,44],{"name":41,"affiliation":42,"role":43},"Padam Simkhada, PhD","University of Chester","STUDY_CHAIR",{"name":45,"affiliation":5,"role":43},"Bibha Simkhada, PhD",[47],{"name":48,"role":49,"phone":50,"phoneExt":30,"email":51},"Joshua Okyere, MPhil","CONTACT","+233249004634","joshua.okyere@hud.ac.uk",[53],{"facility":54,"status":30,"city":55,"state":56,"zip":30,"country":57,"countryCode":58,"cosmosGeoPoint":59,"geoPoint":64,"contacts":65},"Danfa Community","Accra","Greater Accra Region","Ghana","GH",{"type":60,"coordinates":61},"Point",[62,63],-0.1969,5.55602,{"lat":63,"lon":62},[66,70],{"name":67,"role":49,"phone":68,"phoneExt":30,"email":69},"Alfred E Yawson, PhD","+233244662711","aeyawson@ug.edu.gh",{"name":48,"role":71,"phone":30,"phoneExt":30,"email":30},"PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR",{"type":73,"investigatorFullName":30,"investigatorTitle":30,"investigatorAffiliation":30,"oldNameTitle":30,"oldOrganization":30},"SPONSOR","100650252","evaluating-interventions-for-breast-cancer-screening-in-ghana-100650252",false,"NCT07745517","Evaluating Interventions for Breast Cancer Screening in Ghana","EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSE-LED AND TEXT MESSAGING INTERVENTIONS TO IMPROVE BREAST CANCER SCREENING IN GHANA: A MULTI-ARM RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIAL","Inclusion Criteria:\n\n* Must be a female aged 25 years or older\n* Must be resident in the Danfa community\n* Must be someone who can confirm their availability for at least the next eight months after the initiation of the trial\n\nExclusion Criteria:\n\n* Males\n* Females aged \\\u003C25 years\n* Women who are not resident in the study setting\n* Women who cannot be available for at least the next eight months after the initiation of the trial","FEMALE","25 Years",{"count":84,"type":85},828,"ESTIMATED","INTERVENTIONAL",[88],"NA","This study aims to implement two interventions to determine the most effective one that can improve Ghanaian women's decision to get their breasts examined by a healthcare professional. The two interventions are (1) a system where community health nurses will be leveraged to educate women on breast cancer screening; (2) a system where women will be sent text messages about breast cancer screening. Both interventions will be carried out over five months. A survey will be conducted before the intervention is introduced. Then, after the sixth month, another survey will be implemented to determine whether there have been changes. Only women who are 25 years or older will be included in the study.",[91],"Breast Cancer Screening",[93,94,95,96],"Breast cancer","Screening","Literacy","Experimental Studies","NOT_YET_RECRUITING","2026-07-29",{"date":100,"type":101},"2026-08-04","ACTUAL",{"date":103,"type":85},"2026-10-01",{"date":105,"type":85},"2027-11-30",{"name":5,"class":6},1]