Colorectal Cancer Awareness, Research, Education and Screening (CARES)

Inclusion Criteria:

- Racially-ethnically diverse adult men and women

- Average risk individuals who have no personal diagnosis, or presumptive symptoms of
colorectal cancer (CRC), or are not at high risk

- Self-report as not current on screening

- Provide at least two forms of contact information and contact information of a
relative (not living with respondent) to facilitate follow-up contacts

- Are able to speak, read and write English because the instruments and CARES
intervention are available only in English at this time. We recognize that
interventions are needed for non-English speaking populations, therefore, once we
find promise in the English language CARES intervention materials, we will move
forward with conducting other studies that involve translation of measures and
cultural adaptation of the CARES intervention materials into Spanish or Haitian
Creole.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Individuals who have participated in a CRCS research study in the past 1 year will
not be eligible for this study.

- Recent screening criteria relates to not having had I-FOBT within the previous year,
flex sig within the previous 5 years, a double-contrast barium enema (DCBE) x-ray
with the previous 5 years, or a colonoscopy within the previous 10 years.

- Within the recruitment and intervention frame, high risk individuals (due to strong
family history, ulcerative colitis, polyposis syndromes) are excluded because they
may be eligible for CRC screening before age 50, and the preferred screening option
is certainly colonoscopy which is beyond the primary focus of the current study.