Title |
Personalized contact strategies and predictors of time to survey completion: analysis of two sequential randomized trials
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Published in |
BMC Medical Research Methodology, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2288-15-5 |
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Authors |
Victor D Dinglas, Minxuan Huang, Kristin A Sepulveda, Mariela Pinedo, Ramona O Hopkins, Elizabeth Colantuoni, Dale M Needham, the NIH NHLBI ARDS Network |
Abstract |
Effective strategies for contacting and recruiting study participants are critical in conducting clinical research. In this study, we conducted two sequential randomized controlled trials of mail- and telephone-based strategies for contacting and recruiting participants, and evaluated participant-related variables' association with time to survey completion and survey completion rates. Subjects eligible for this study were survivors of acute lung injury who had been previously enrolled in a 12-month observational follow-up study evaluating their physical, cognitive and mental health outcomes, with their last study visit completed at a median of 34 months previously. |
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United States | 2 | 40% |
Japan | 1 | 20% |
Canada | 1 | 20% |
Unknown | 1 | 20% |
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Members of the public | 2 | 40% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 40% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 20% |
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Student > Master | 7 | 12% |
Researcher | 5 | 9% |
Student > Bachelor | 4 | 7% |
Student > Postgraduate | 3 | 5% |
Other | 6 | 11% |
Unknown | 22 | 39% |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 14% |
Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 6 | 11% |
Social Sciences | 4 | 7% |
Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
Other | 6 | 11% |
Unknown | 24 | 42% |