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ArticleEthics & human research2022

Challenges and Possible Solutions to Adapting to Virtual Recruitment: Lessons Learned from a Survey Study during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

Krista E Cooksey, Jessica Mozersky, James DuBois, Lindsay Kuroki, Christine M Marx, Mary C Politi

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Article in Ethics & human research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors.

Krista E CookseyResearch coordinator in the Division of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.
Jessica MozerskyAssistant professor in the Bioethics Research Center in the Department of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.
James DuBoisSteven J. Bander Professor of Medical Ethics and Professionalism in the Department of Medicine and the executive director of the Bioethics Research Center at Washington University School of Medicine.
Lindsay KurokiAssociate professor in the Division of Gynecologic Oncology in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine.
Christine M MarxResearch coordinator in the Division of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.
Mary C PolitiProfessor in the Division of Public Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine.

Funding

Washington University Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control (WU-ISCCC)P50CA244431 · NCI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI BROWNSON, ROSS C, COLDITZ, GRAHAM A. · 2019 to 2023
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National Institute of Health's National Cancer Institute (under grant P50CA244431 P50CA244431NCI NIH HHS P50 CA244431
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic required rapid changes to research protocols, including immediate transitions to recruiting research participants and conducting the informed consent process virtually. This case study details the challenges our research team faced adapting an in-person, behavioral-intervention and survey study to virtual recruitment. We reflect on the impact of these rapid changes on recruitment and retention, discuss protocol changes we made to address these challenges and the needs of potential and enrolled participants, and propose recommendations for future work. Using computer technology to display professional return phone numbers, being flexible by contacting potential participants through various means, minimizing email communication due to added regulatory requirements, and partnering with the institutional review board to shorten and improve the consent document and process were critical to study success. This case study can offer insight to other researchers as they navigate similar processes. Virtual recruitment is likely to continue; it is important to ensure that it facilitates, rather than hinders, equitable and just recruitment practices.

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COVID-19Ethics Committees, ResearchHumansInformed ConsentPandemicsResearch PersonnelCovid-19 pandemichuman subjects researchinformed consentresearch recruitmentvirtual recruitment

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PMID36316973
PMCPMC9631333

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