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. 2022 Jul 19;6(1):e94.
doi: 10.1017/cts.2022.429. eCollection 2022.

The RIC COVID-19 Recruitment & Retention Toolkit: A community-informed resource of recruitment tools and strategies for clinical trial investigators

Nan Kennedy  1 , Julia Dunagan  1 , Leslie R Boone  1 , Tiffany Israel  1 , Stephanie A Mayers  1 , Leah Dunkel  1 , Sarah Cook  1 , Pamela Pimentel  2   3 , Terri L Edwards  1 , Mary Stroud  1 , Consuelo H Wilkins  1   4   5   6 , Paul A Harris  1   7
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The RIC COVID-19 Recruitment & Retention Toolkit: A community-informed resource of recruitment tools and strategies for clinical trial investigators

Nan Kennedy et al. J Clin Transl Sci. .

Abstract

The Recruitment Innovation Center (RIC) has created a toolkit of novel strategies to engage potential participants in response to recruitment and retention challenges associated with COVID-19 studies. The toolkit contains pragmatic, generalizable resources to help research teams increase awareness of clinical trials and opportunities to participate; produce culturally sensitive and engaging recruitment materials; improve consent and return of results processes; and enhance recruitment of individuals from populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. This resource, the "RIC COVID-19 Recruitment and Retention Toolkit," is available free online. We describe the toolkit and the community feedback used to author and curate this resource.

Keywords: COVID-19; clinical trial recruitment; community engagement; participant retention; toolkit.

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The RIC COVID-19 Recruitment & Retention Toolkit. Key: RIC – Recruitment Innovation Center.
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Community feedback used to inform the development of the RIC COVID-19 Recruitment and Retention Toolkit. Key: RIC – Recruitment Innovation Center; CAB – Community Advisory Board. *The number of community members who offered informal suggestions through these channels was not tallied.
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Continuum of clinical trial recruitment activities and examples of community feedback to support those activities.
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