Impact of financial reimbursement on retention rates in military clinical trial research: A natural experiment within a multi-site randomized effectiveness trial with active duty service members.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Achieving adequate retention rates in clinical trials is essential to ensuring meaningful results. Although financial reimbursement is an effective strategy to increase participant retention, current policies restrict the use of federal funds to reimburse U.S. active duty Service members for research participation. It is unknown whether permitting financial reimbursement among this population would improve trial retention rates. A recent randomized effectiveness trial received approval to provide reimbursement to Service member participants several months after recruitment began, creating a natural experiment to study the effects of financial reimbursement on retention.

Materials and methods

Active duty Service members recruited from six U.S. military treatment

SUBMITTER: Novak LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6477623 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature