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Evaluation of HbA1c screening during outreach events for prediabetes subject recruitment for clinical research

BACKGROUND: There are a number of obstacles which may impede the recruitment of underserved populations in clinical research studies; some of these factors include mistrust of medical research, socioeconomic constraints, cultural factors, and language barriers. For chronic metabolic disease indicati...

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Autores principales: Paglialunga, Sabina, Bond, Ryan, Jaycox, Sharon H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29357915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2459-0
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Bond, Ryan
Jaycox, Sharon H.
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description BACKGROUND: There are a number of obstacles which may impede the recruitment of underserved populations in clinical research studies; some of these factors include mistrust of medical research, socioeconomic constraints, cultural factors, and language barriers. For chronic metabolic disease indications, these barriers may also include lack of disease awareness. Recently, national organizations such as the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have highlighted the need for prediabetes recognition. Therefore the aim of the study was twofold: to raise prediabetes awareness in an under-represented Hispanic community and to engage prediabetes participants in clinical research. METHODS: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) screening was performed at major outreach events catered to the Hispanic community. All participants signed an ethics review board approved waiver which collected basic demographic information and the HbA1c test was performed with a hand-held monitor and finger-stick blood sample. Participants were given their HbA1c results at the event as well as information on prediabetes and upcoming clinic studies. After the event, participants were contacted by a study participant recruiter to assess interest in participating in clinical research. RESULTS: The majority of participants screened fell within a prediabetes HbA1c range. Mean HbA1c was similar among men and women, yet higher in individuals aged 45–65 years compared to adults aged < 45 years (p < 0.05). For recruitment purposes, the highest number of leads came from participants attending a faith-based community event. In all, 17% of individuals contacted expressed interest in participating in clinical research and created a profile within our database to be eligible for future studies. CONCLUSIONS: Providing no-cost HbA1c screening is an excellent recruitment tool for clinical research as well as an opportunity to raise prediabetes awareness in a traditionally underserved population.
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spelling pubmed-57787432018-01-31 Evaluation of HbA1c screening during outreach events for prediabetes subject recruitment for clinical research Paglialunga, Sabina Bond, Ryan Jaycox, Sharon H. Trials Research BACKGROUND: There are a number of obstacles which may impede the recruitment of underserved populations in clinical research studies; some of these factors include mistrust of medical research, socioeconomic constraints, cultural factors, and language barriers. For chronic metabolic disease indications, these barriers may also include lack of disease awareness. Recently, national organizations such as the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have highlighted the need for prediabetes recognition. Therefore the aim of the study was twofold: to raise prediabetes awareness in an under-represented Hispanic community and to engage prediabetes participants in clinical research. METHODS: Hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) screening was performed at major outreach events catered to the Hispanic community. All participants signed an ethics review board approved waiver which collected basic demographic information and the HbA1c test was performed with a hand-held monitor and finger-stick blood sample. Participants were given their HbA1c results at the event as well as information on prediabetes and upcoming clinic studies. After the event, participants were contacted by a study participant recruiter to assess interest in participating in clinical research. RESULTS: The majority of participants screened fell within a prediabetes HbA1c range. Mean HbA1c was similar among men and women, yet higher in individuals aged 45–65 years compared to adults aged < 45 years (p < 0.05). For recruitment purposes, the highest number of leads came from participants attending a faith-based community event. In all, 17% of individuals contacted expressed interest in participating in clinical research and created a profile within our database to be eligible for future studies. CONCLUSIONS: Providing no-cost HbA1c screening is an excellent recruitment tool for clinical research as well as an opportunity to raise prediabetes awareness in a traditionally underserved population. BioMed Central 2018-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5778743/ /pubmed/29357915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2459-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5778743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29357915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-018-2459-0
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