Hala T. Borno|Brian Bakke|Celia P. Kaplan|Anke Hebig-Prophet|Jessica Chao|Inah Kim|Jan Yeager|Pelin Cinar|Eric J. Small|Christy Boscardin|Ralph Gonzales
A step towards equitable clinical trial recruitment: a protocol for the development and preliminary testing of an online prostate cancer health information and clinical trial matching tool
University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco|University of California, San Francisco
recruitment diverse participant pool cancer clinical trials essential component clinical research improves generalizability findings investigating piloting novel recruitment strategies take advantage ubiquitous digital technologies become important component facilitating broad recruitment addressing inequities clinical trial participation equitable inclusive recruitment improves generalizability clinical trial outcomes benefiting patients clinicians research community increasing prevalence online connectivity usa use internet resource medical information provides opportunity digital recruitment strategies cancer clinical trials study aims measure acceptability preliminary estimates efficacy feasibility trial library intervention internetbased cancer clinical trial matching tool study also examine extent trial library website designed address linguistic literacy needs broader patient populations influences patientinitiated conversations physicians clinical trial participationthis study protocol nonrandomized singlearm pilot study mixed methods study design utilizes statistical analysis quantitative survey data qualitative analysis interview data assess participant experience trial library intervention study examine 1 acceptability measure participant satisfaction intervention 2 preliminary measure efficacy measure proportion participants documented clinical trial discussion electronic medical record 3 feasibility intervention measure duration clinical visitthe principles informed design trial library intervention aim generalizable clinical trials across many disease contexts ground intervention built inclusive linguistic literacy technological needs underrepresented patient populations study collect essential preliminary data prior multisite randomized clinical trial trial library interventionthis study received institutional approval committee human subjects research university california san francisco