关键词:
Recruitment
Patient information
Research methodology
Randomised controlled trial
摘要:
BackgroundGood quality information is critical for valid informed consent to trials, but current paper-based consent procedures are potentially unwieldy and can be difficult to comprehend, which may deter people from participating. Multimedia resources may be able to provide more accessible and user-friendly *** aimed to test whether offering access to a multimedia information resource alongside standard, printed patient information impacted on recruitment rates by conducting a pragmatic study within a trial' (SWAT) embedding a trial of a multimedia resource within an existing *** PSM COPD study involved people with mild symptoms of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) recruited from primary care being randomised to a nurse-delivered telephone health coaching intervention, or usual primary *** the SWAT of recruitment procedures, practices recruiting participants were cluster randomised to use either the standard printed patient information materials or standard printed patient information materials with access to a multimedia information *** multimedia resource was developed by patient and public involvement (PPI) contributors and researchers, and included study-specific information(e.g. study purpose, risks), andgeneric informationabout trials (e.g. confidentiality, randomisation). We developed a list of components and used animations as well as video clips of patients discussing their experiences of participation, matched to these *** primary outcome was the proportion of participants *** point six percent of those receiving standard printed patient information materials and access to the multimedia information resource were recruited, compared to 10.8% in those receiving standard printed materials alone (odds ratio (OR) = 0.844, 95% confidence interval (CI) 0.58to1.22).We also found no effects on the proportion of people respondingto the invitation (OR = 1.02, 95% CI 0.79 to1.33) or reten