Using Patient Navigation to Promote Bowel Screening in AAA Attendees.

NCT07721740 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: SPON 2026-06
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 4,190
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goal of this single-arm, multi-centre feasibility study is to assess the efficacy, feasibility and acceptability of implementing patient navigation across Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) screening services in England to increase uptake of bowel cancer screening. The main questions it aims to answer are:

• Do service users complete a bowel cancer screening within three months of receiving patient navigation?
• Do service deliverers consider patient navigation as feasible to implement in practice?
• Do service users consider patient navigation acceptable to receive during their AAA appointment? Participants will be asked to discuss bowel screening with AAA practitioners (patient navigation). Follow-up surveys and interviews will be conducted with those that delivered the intervention and with those that received it.

Conditions

Bowel Cancer Screening

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Number of FIT test completed

  Completion of FIT test

  Completion within 3 months of patient navigation intervention

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Feasibility of delivering patient navigation (survey)

  0-5 months post patient navigation delivery

• Feasibility of delivering patient navigation (Interviews)

  0-5 months post patient navigation delivery

• Acceptability of receiving patient navigation (Survey)

  0-5 months post patient navigation

• Acceptability of receiving patient navigation (Interviews)

  0-5 months post patient navigation

Study Arms (1)

Patient Navigation

OTHER

Eligibility: Men who have a negative AAA result, indicate that they have not completed their most recent bowel screening and are happy to discuss this further. Intervention: A 2 minute Patient Navigation intervention (discussion regarding barriers to completing bowel cancer screening)

Other: Patient Navigation conversation

Interventions

Patient Navigation conversation OTHER

Brief 1.5-2 minute conversation to discuss barriers and solutions to why have not completed most recent bowel screening. Offer of third party request or information to contact screening service.

Patient Navigation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Men aged 65 years and above
• Attending an AAA screening appointment
• Have not completed their most recent bowel screening
• Agree to discuss bowel screening further

You may not qualify if:

• Men aged \<65years
• Those who do not attend their AAA screening appointment
• Have completed their most recent bowel screening
• Do not agree to discuss bowel screening further
• Those who received a positive AAA result in their appointment.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Surrey: lead
• Cancer Research UK: collaborator
• NHS England: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Leicester, United Kingdom

Location

Study Officials

• Robert Kerrison, PhD

  University of Surrey

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Elizabeth Bailey

CONTACT

+441483 300800; assurance@surrey.ac.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SCREENING
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 3, 2026
• First Posted: July 23, 2026
• Study Start: August 3, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): March 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): July 31, 2027
• Last Updated: July 23, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-06

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)