Design of a cluster-randomized minority recruitment trial: RECRUIT.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Racial/ethnic minority groups remain underrepresented in clinical trials. Many strategies to increase minority recruitment focus on minority communities and emphasize common diseases such as hypertension. Scant literature focuses on minority recruitment to trials of less common conditions, often conducted in specialty clinics and dependent on physician referrals. We identified trust/mistrust of specialist physician investigators and institutions conducting medical research and consequent participant reluctance to participate in clinical trials as key-shared barriers across racial/ethnic groups. We developed a trust-based continuous quality improvement intervention to build trust between specialist physician investigators and community minority-serving physicians and ulti

SUBMITTER: Tilley BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5448312 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature