Communication Strategies

This resource describes the most effective strategies to increase research participation among older African Americans, based on an analysis of peer-review studies.

In this study, researchers examined the perspectives of Asian American and Pacific Islanders regarding their participation in a research recruitment registry.

This review article from NIA provides strategies to increase awareness and participation of Hispanics/Latinos in AD/ADRD clinical research studies.

This article highlights how concentrated community memory screening events can be an effective and efficient recruitment strategy for Alzheimer’s disease research.

This research examined the effectiveness and differences in using both traditional and social media materials for the recruitment of African American versus non-Hispanic white participants.

To test an intervention for increasing Alzheimer’s disease literacy among African Americans, the researchers enrolled 193 African American community-dwelling adults using culturally tailored education and messaging.

For the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 3 (ADNI3) trial, 462 new participants were enrolled. Recruitment metrics were recorded on 82,003 unique visitors to the recruitment website and 3,335 calls to study phone numbers. The recruitment sources that produced the most screening and enrollment included online advertisements, local radio and newspaper coverage, and emails and referrals from patient registries. According to the authors, ADNI3 is an example of how a data-driven approach to...

For this study, 10,450 participants enrolled in an initial cohort study were asked to complete a six-lesson interactive education course, AlzU.org, about Alzheimer’s disease. Participants in the highest lesson completion group demonstrated the greatest screening rates for the Anti-Amyloid Treatment in Asymptomatic Alzheimer's Disease (A4) trial. In a subsequent randomized-controlled trial, 351 new participants were enrolled in the six-lesson course (n = 180) versus a time-neutral control course...

The Michael J. Fox Foundation, which focuses on elimination of Parkinson’s disease, has developed study recruitment materials that are applicable to other areas of disease research.

The aim of this study was to explore the feasibility of a 45-minute, culturally tailored presentation on Alzheimer's disease for professionals serving the Latino community and Latinos served by community organizations. Five lunch-and-learn events (“Smart Aging” presented in English to professionals and “Envejecimineto Digno” presented in Spanish to served Latinos) were conducted with a total of 40 professionals and 37 served Latinos. Researchers increased the pool of participants by scheduling...