Developing strategies to address disparities in retention communication during the consent discussion: development of a behavioural intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical trials are essential to evidence-based medicine. Their success relies on recruitment and retention of participants: problems with either can affect validity of results. Past research on improving trials has focused on recruitment, with less on retention, and even less considering retention at the point of recruitment, i.e., what retention-relevant information is shared during consent processes. The behaviour of trial staff communicating this information during consent is likely to contribute to retention. So, developing approaches to mitigate issues in retention at the point of consent is necessary. In this study, we describe the development of a behavioural intervention targeting the communication of information important to retention during the consent process

SUBMITTER: Coffey T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10134580 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature