Development and Evaluation of a Cluster Package Intervention to Promote an Evidence-based Use of PSA-tests in General Practice: A Cluster Randomized Trial

Status: Recruiting
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Intervention Type: Behavioral
Study Type: Interventional
Study Phase: Not Applicable
SUMMARY

It is widely acknowledged that prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing can lead to false-positives, overdiagnosis and overtreatment of prostate cancer. The current national clinical guidelines only recommend the test to a small group of patients and does not recommend neither systematic nor opportunistic screening for prostate cancer with the test. The aim of this cluster randomized trial is to evaluate the effectiveness of a complex intervention aimed at improving the use of evidence based practice when using prostate specific antigen tests in general practice. The complex intervention in this study is a so called cluster package which is meeting material to a quality cluster meeting as almost every general practitioner is a member of a quality cluster. Therefore, the investigators have developed a cluster package aimed at promoting an evidence-based use of the prostate specific antigen test to general practitioners.

Eligibility
Participation Requirements
Sex: All
Healthy Volunteers: f
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• Quality clusters with a cluster coordinator

• Quality clusters willing to participate in a cluster meeting with PSA as a theme in 2025.

Locations
Other Locations
Denmark
Center of General Practice, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen
RECRUITING
Copenhagen
Contact Information
Primary
Christian Leick, PhD student
christian.leick@sund.ku.dk
004560898397
Time Frame
Start Date: 2024-09-09
Estimated Completion Date: 2026-01-01
Participants
Target number of participants: 50
Treatments
Experimental: Cluster package intervention group
The intervention consists of:~* A pre-recorded podcast to be heard by the GP's prior to the cluster meeting.~* A two-hour meeting with a specific slideshow about PSA, data from the clinics within the cluster, current guidelines, cases and group discussions.~* Two sets of hand-outs for the GP's to use in their own clinics.~The intervention group will be offered the intervention during the intervention period of six months.
No_intervention: Standard care control group
The control group will be offered the intervention at the end of the intervention period.
Related Therapeutic Areas
Sponsors
Collaborators: Kvalitet i Almen Praksis (KiAP)
Leads: University of Copenhagen

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