Increasing Minority Participation in Clinical Trials

Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Clinical Trial

Treatments: Procedure: Video viewing group

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02600533

P30CA068485 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

14117

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will measure the effects of an office-based, clinical trial education video on clinical trial knowledge and enrollment in clinical trials, in a clinical sample with no previous history of clinical trial participation. This study will also determine the feasibility of implementing an office-based video educational program.

Full description

Clinical trials are essential to scientific discovery and are critical to translating research in to practice. Despite their significance, clinical trial participation rates remain low, especially among underrepresented minority groups. Several barriers exist to minority group participation in clinical trial, one of which lack of awareness about clinical trials. Video educational programs show promise as an effective strategy to increase knowledge and clinical trial participation. The specific aims are as follows:

1. Measure the effects of an office-based, clinical trial education video on clinical trial knowledge and enrollment in clinical trials, in a clinical sample with no previous history of clinical trial participation.
2. Determine the feasibility of implementing an office-based video educational program.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Participants will be patients of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) with a diagnosis of cancer Participants will have no previous history of clinical trial research participation

Exclusion criteria

• Previous history of clinical trial research participation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard care/control group

No Intervention group

Description:

First, participants will complete a brief electronic survey measuring their opinions on clinical trials. Next, participants in the standard of care group will be provided standard educational resources (booklet and DVD), with no additional instructions. Participants in this groups will be informed that a team member will call him/her in approximately 1 week to ask him/her the (same) questions about clinical research.

Video viewing group

Experimental group

Description:

First, participants will complete a brief electronic survey measuring their opinions on clinical trials. Next, participants in the video viewing group will watch the 10-minute DVD video on tablet devices using headphones in the clinic. Participants in this groups will be informed that a team member will call him/her in approximately 1 week to ask him/her the (same) questions about clinical research.

Treatment:

Procedure: Video viewing group