Guide to enable health charities to increase recruitment to clinical trials on dementia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Alzheimer Society embarked on a project to improve ways that the 60 provincial and local Societies in Canada can work with local researchers to support recruitment of volunteers to clinical trials and studies. A Guide to assist these offices was produced to design ethical recruitment of research volunteers within their client populations.

Methods

Consultations with individuals from provincial and local Societies, as well as researchers and leaders from health-related organizations, were conducted to identify in what ways these organizations are involved in study volunteer recruitment, what is and is not working, and what would be helpful to support future efforts. The Guide prototype used scenarios to illustrate study volunteer recruitment practices as they

SUBMITTER: Chambers LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5779735 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature