Characteristics of clinical trials that require participants to be fluent in English.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

Diverse samples in clinical trials can make findings more generalizable. We sought to characterize the prevalence of clinical trials in the United States that required English fluency for participants to enroll in the trial.

Methods

We randomly chose over 10,000 clinical trial protocols registered with ClinicalTrials.gov and examined the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the trials. We compared the relationship of clinical trial characteristics with English fluency inclusion requirements. We merged the ClinicalTrials.gov data with US Census and American Community Survey data to investigate the association of English-language restrictions with ZIP-code-level demographic characteristics of participating institutions. We used Chi-squared tests, t-tests, and lo

SUBMITTER: Egleston BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4643363 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature