Outreach to diversify clinical trial participation: A randomized recruitment study.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Racial and ethnic minorities remain underrepresented in clinical research, yet few recruitment strategies have been rigorously evaluated.

Methods

We experimentally tested whether targeted recruitment letters acknowledging diabetes health disparities and health risks specific to recipients' racial/ethnic group improved two metrics of trial participation: willingness to be screened and enrollment. This experiment was efficiently nested within a randomized clinical trial examining a preventive lifestyle intervention among women at high risk for diabetes. Pregnant women with gestational diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance (N = 445) were randomized to receive a targeted recruitment letter with health risk information specific to their racial/ethnic group (n = 2

SUBMITTER: Brown SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4424096 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature