The Peer-Based Retention of People Who Use Drugs in Rural Research (PROUD-R2)

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Peer Influence; Drug Use

Treatments: Other: Retention Video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03885024

PROUD-R2

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to, through several aims, test the effectiveness of peer-driven intervention and inform methods to optimize engagement in research in people who use drugs (PWUD) in rural America.

Full description

This study builds on the National Rural Opioids Initiative (NROI), a multi-state consortium studying access to care, overdose, and infectious consequences of opioid use disorder (OUD) in Rural America. It includes counties in rural Oregon and Appalachian Kentucky and Ohio with high rates of drug overdose.

Aim 1: Conduct a randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a peer-driven study retention intervention for retaining PWUD in Kentucky, Ohio, and Oregon Rural Opioid Initiative sites.

Aim 2: Elicit preferences of PWUD in the Kentucky, Ohio, and Oregon Rural Opioid Initiative sites Aim 2a: Administer baseline survey of discrete choice experiment preferences for participating in clinical trials of potential medical innovations (e.g. new treatments for OUD, HIV, and HCV vaccination). Aim 2a will be accomplished as part of the NROI studies. The data will then be merged for PROUD-R² analyses.

Aim 2b: Compare participant survey preferences regarding willingness to participate in clinical trials at baseline, 6, and 12 months.

Aim 3: Explore participant perceptions of clinical research participation and retention among PWUD in rural America.

Enrollment: 850 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

NROI eligibility criteria: Participants are eligible to enroll in the NROI if they 1) live in the study area, 2) have recently injected drugs or report opioid use to get high without injection, and 3) are age 18 or older.

NROI participants enrolled after April 2019 are eligible to participate in the PROUD R2 study.

Participants enrolling as study buddies will be eligible if they 1) live in the study area, 2) are age 18 or older; they do not need to have recent or past substance use to qualify.

No eligible participants are excluded.

Exclusion criteria

Under 18 years of age

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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850 participants in 2 patient groups

Retention Video

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants the peer-driven retention arm will receive video-based and in-person training from Retention Specialists on how to encourage study retention. Participants will watch a 7 minute video that standardizes retention messages. A brief face-to-face conversation with the Retention Specialist follows the video viewing to answer questions and reinforce video messages. At the end of the training, participants receive information about their recruit(s) who consented to release their information to their recruiters. Peers remind their enrolled "study buddy" to attend their scheduled follow up assessments. Participants meet with a study Retention Specialist by phone or in person, at 3 and 9 months after enrollment to answer questions about peer retention strategies and remind participants of their peers' contact information and follow-up schedules.

Treatment:

Other: Retention Video

Standard Retention Strategy

No Intervention group

Description:

Control arm: At NROI enrollment, all participants provide detailed information to assist with retention and/or contact for future research, and contact information for up to three people who should know how to reach the participant if contact information changes. Participants randomized to receive the standard retention strategy are contacted at the mid-point of each follow-up interval (i.e., at 3-month post enrollment and 9-months post-enrollment) to update locator information and remind them about their follow-up appointment date. Study associates contact the participant using their contact information and, if not successful, will try to reach one of their contacts in the locator form.