Alzheimer's & Dementia Outreach, Recruitment & Engagement Resources
Recruitment Plans
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- This article examines barriers and facilitators to the enrollment of socially isolated older Black adults in an online study.
- This article examines the use of geographical, location-based information to facilitate the recruitment of Korean Americans.
- This article provides the success rates for different recruitment methods used in a large-scale Alzheimer’s disease risk reduction trial.
- This resource describes the recruitment plan for an upcoming clinical trial that tests the ability of the eRADAR tool to identify patients that may have undiagnosed dementia.
- Duke Aging Center has a website on the 5Ts framework — a tool to help researchers employ best practices in the inclusion of older adults in their research studies.
- This resource describes trends in recruitment over a 20-year period of NIH-funded Alzheimer’s clinical trials.
- This resource explores different ways clinical researchers adapted their recruitment strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- This article explores why and how to incorporate critical race theory into dementia caregiver recruitment efforts.
- This systematic review examined 22 published reports describing recruitment and retention of individuals from underrepresented backgrounds in Alzheimer’s disease research or underrepresented participants’ perspectives regarding participation in such research. The authors concluded that considerable scientific gaps limit the use of prior efforts by scientists to bolster inclusion of members from underrepresented groups. They recommend that future studies on this topic use improved methodological...
- This article describes the methodology and initial recruitment findings for a study that estimated prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in Mexican Americans compared with non-Hispanic white people in Nueces County, Texas. The study was aligned with the parent BASIC project, a population-based epidemiological stroke surveillance project, funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1999 to identify differences in stroke prevalence among Mexican Americans and non-Hispanic Whites...
- This online toolbox offers resources from Clinical & Translational Science Awards (CTSA) programs, and their community health partners, to help investigators across the life cycle of their projects.
- This five-page document presents a standardized retention plan for prevention, symptomatic, and observational trials conducted at the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment (CART), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The plan describes strategy and tactics designed to keep patients enrolled in clinical trials, and from discontinuing their participation or dropping out. It covers pre-initiation, study start-up, and study initiation phases. For a copy of the retention...
- This University of Maryland Center for Health Equity website is designed to help build trust between communities and health researchers. It includes fact sheets, articles, reports, and videos.
- This webinar series covers regulatory documentation for clinical trials, informed consent, good clinical practice, and many other topics.
- The National Cancer Institute's Division of Cancer Prevention (DCP) requires a study-specific Recruitment, Retention and Adherence (RRA) Plan for each DCP Consortia Early Phase Prevention Trial. The RRA Plan covers the “who, what, when and where” of the strategies planned for the period before study activation and during the course of the study. This fillable form provides an outline for investigators and RRA coordinators to follow for creating a study-specific plan. Note: To access this...
- This five-page document is intended as a tool to support investigators, research managers, recruitment/outreach staff, research assistants, and coordinators involved with the Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) and to help inform sponsors of the resources and the planning process used to support recruitment needs. Study-specific needs are addressed during the pre-initiation stage by the HABS research team, and the plan is tailored to support study-specific recruitment needs. Recruitment efforts are...
- This five-page document presents a standardized recruitment plan for prevention, symptomatic, and observational trials conducted at the Center for Alzheimer Research and Treatment (CART), Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. The plan covers pre-initiation, study start-up, and study initiation phases. It is intended as a tool to support investigators, recruitment/outreach staff, research assistants, and coordinators and to help inform sponsors of the resources and the planning...
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