ArticleContemporary clinical trials communications2019
Effective recruitment for practice-based research: Lessons from the REAL HEALTH-Diabetes Study.
Article in Contemporary clinical trials communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02320253 (REAL HEALTH-Diabetes), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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REAL HEALTH-Diabetes: Reach Ahead for Lifestyle and Health-Diabetes
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Weight Loss in the Reach Ahead for Lifestyle and Health-Diabetes Lifestyle Intervention Cohort.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2023Trial
- Results of a 2-year lifestyle intervention for type 2 diabetes: the Reach Ahead for Lifestyle and Health-Diabetes randomized controlled trial.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- Evaluation of electronic recruitment efforts of primary care providers as research subjects during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC primary care · 2022Trial
- Effectiveness of Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: the REAL HEALTH-Diabetes Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of general internal medicine · 2020Trial
- Recruitment and reach in a pragmatic behavioral weight loss randomized controlled trial: implications for real-world primary care practice.BMC family practice · 2020Trial
- Design and Performance of an Email-Based Patient Recruitment Campaign in Primary Care Research: Formative Secondary Analysis.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
- Identifying and Removing Fraudulent Attempts to Enroll in a Human Health Improvement Intervention Trial in Rural Communities.Methods and protocols · 2024Article
- Intervening on Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease in Latino/a and Black Patients with Diabetes: A Feasibility Pilot.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2024Article
- Recruitment strategies and retention rates for five National Dental PBRN studies.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Recruitment strategies for a post cessation weight management trial: A comparison of strategy cost-effectiveness and sample diversity.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
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- Understanding acceptability in the context of text messages to encourage medication adherence in people with type 2 diabetes.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Outreach to new mothers through direct mail and email: recruitment in the Early Check research study.Clinical and translational science · 2021Article
- What do young women with obesity want from a weight management program?Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundAims: The REAL HEALTH Diabetes Study is a practice-based randomized clinical trial that compares the effectiveness of lifestyle intervention aimed at weight reduction to medical nutrition therapy in primary care patients with type 2 diabetes. This paper describes a tiered approach to recruitment, the resultant enrollment rates of sequentially more intensive recruitment strategies, and identifies barriers to participation.
methodsPotential participants were identified using patient health registries and classified by recruitment site. Four recruitment strategies were used to achieve target enrollment: (1) mail/telephone outreach; (2) direct referral from providers; (3) orientation sessions; and (4) media/advertising. Reasons for ineligibility and non-participation were tracked.
resultsFifteen thousand two hundred sixty-nine (15,269) potential participants were identified from all sources, with the clear majority coming from patient registries. Mail/telephone outreach alone had the lowest enrollment rate (1.2%). Direct referral and orientation sessions superimposed on mail/telephone outreach was used for fewer participants but had greater enrollment rates (27% and 52%.) Media/advertising was ineffective. The most commonly reported reasons for non-participation were not wanting to be in a research (30%) or a weight loss program (22%); time commitment (20%); and distance/transportation (14%).
conclusionsThe use of population registries to identify potential participants coupled with successively more intensive recruitment strategies, executed in a tiered approach moving toward personal engagement to establish trust and credibility, maximized recruitment enrollment rates. Our findings regarding facilitators and barriers to recruitment could be used to inform other practice-based research or to engage patients in group interventions in usual care settings. CLINICAL
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