A Randomized Trial of Recruitment Strategies for Research Participation

University of Pennsylvania

Status: Completed

Conditions: This Study Will Focus on Recruitment Strategies and Attitudes Towards Research Among Patients Considering Participation in 2 Parent Randomized Controlled Trials; Cancer; Research Ethics

Treatments: Behavioral: High-level recruitment strategy consent form; Behavioral: Mid-level recruitment strategy consent form

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02697799

823491

Details and patient eligibility

About

In a multicenter, randomized clinical trial of attitudes towards research participation, we will evaluate the ethics, effectiveness, and cost- effectiveness of three recruitment strategies for research participation in a mobility trial among hospitalized patients and a smoking cessation trial among patients with depression.

Enrollment: 1,296 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Eligible for parent RCT
2. 18 years or older
3. No prior knowledge of recruitment strategies used for this trial
4. Speaks English

Exclusion criteria

1)Prior knowledge of recruitment strategies used for this trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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1,296 participants in 3 patient groups

High-level recruitment strategy

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this group will receive pre-consent messaging and a consent form with a high-level recruitment strategy for research participation in the parent study. The consent form will provide information on the first page, under the header that describes the purpose of the study, as well as in the consent sections describing the cost to participate in the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: High-level recruitment strategy consent form

Mid-level recruitment strategy

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects in this group will receive pre-consent messaging and a consent form with a mid-level recruitment strategy for research participation in the parent study. The consent form will provide information on the first page, under the header that describes the purpose of the study, as well as in the consent sections describing the cost to participate in the study.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mid-level recruitment strategy consent form

No modified recruitment strategy

No Intervention group

Description:

Subjects in this group will receive consent form without a modified recruitment strategy for research participation in the parent study.