Assessing Repeat Fit Testing for CRC (ARFT)

This study will randomly assign 220 men and women to either a social media intervention or a standard reminder system to have a repeat screening test for colo-rectal cancer.

Only persons initially screening by FIT (through a Rural Cancer Prevention Center service program) will be eligible for study participation. The objective is to test a social media-based intervention designed to promote annual repeat colo-rectal cancer screening using the Fecal Immunochemical Test (FIT) among person who have taken the FIT test once before. 220 men and women (50 to 75 years of age) will be recruited and randomly assigned to either the intervention condition (monthly social media contact) or a control condition (standard of care reminder for repeat testing one month before the annual test is due). The dependent variable will be whether volunteers requested and retuned a FIT kit with 60 days of the annual due date (one year from their initial screening).

monthly social media contact will be used to keep people connected to the idea of completing a second screening test 12 months after their last one.

this group will receive only a standard reminder for the annual repeat test, one month before the test due date

Messages will be sent trough Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, e-mail, texting or other electronic/social media specified by study volunteers.

Primary endpoint is a received completed FIT kit within 15 months after the participant received results from the original FIT test

Inclusion Criteria: must have completed and returned an initial FIT kit to us as part of a Rural Cancer Prevention Center service program to the community Exclusion Criteria: visible blood in stool or prior diagnosis of cool-rectal cancer