Trial Forge Guidance 3: randomised trials and how to recruit and retain individuals from ethnic minority groups-practical guidance to support better practice.

Ethnic minority Inclusion Randomised trials Recruitment Retention Trial methodology

Journal

Trials
ISSN: 1745-6215
Titre abrégé: Trials
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101263253

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
17 Aug 2022
Historique:
received: 10 02 2022
accepted: 16 07 2022
entrez: 17 8 2022
pubmed: 18 8 2022
medline: 20 8 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Randomised trials, especially those intended to directly inform clinical practice and policy, should be designed to reflect all those who could benefit from the intervention under test should it prove effective. This does not always happen. The UK National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) INCLUDE project identified many groups in the UK that are under-served by trials, including ethnic minorities.This guidance document presents four key recommendations for designing and running trials that include the ethnic groups needed by the trial. These are (1) ensure eligibility criteria and recruitment pathway do not limit participation in ways you do not intend, (2) ensure your trial materials are developed with inclusion in mind, (3) ensure staff are culturally competent and (4) build trusting partnerships with community organisations that work with ethnic minority groups. Each recommendation comes with best practice advice, public contributor testimonials, examples of the inclusion problem tackled by the recommendation, or strategies to mitigate the problem, as well as a collection of resources to support implementation of the recommendations.We encourage trial teams to follow the recommendations and, where possible, evaluate the strategies they use to implement them. Finally, while our primary audience is those designing, running and reporting trials, we hope funders, grant reviewers and approvals agencies may also find our guidance useful.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35978338
doi: 10.1186/s13063-022-06553-w
pii: 10.1186/s13063-022-06553-w
pmc: PMC9383663
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

672

Subventions

Organisme : World Health Organization
ID : 001
Pays : International
Organisme : Chief Scientist Office
ID : HSRU1
Pays : United Kingdom
Organisme : Health Research Board
ID : HRB-TMRN-2017-2
Pays : Ireland

Commentaires et corrections

Type : ErratumIn

Informations de copyright

© 2022. The Author(s).

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Auteurs

Shoba Dawson (S)

Centre for Academic Primary Care, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2PS, UK.

Katie Banister (K)

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK.

Katie Biggs (K)

School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK.

Seonaidh Cotton (S)

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK.

Declan Devane (D)

Health Research Board-Trials Methodology Research Network (HRB-TMRN), School of Nursing and Midwifery, National University of Ireland Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland.

Heidi Gardner (H)

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK.

Katie Gillies (K)

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK.

Gosala Gopalakrishnan (G)

Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, W12 0NN, UK.

Talia Isaacs (T)

UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society, University College London, London, WC1H 0AL, UK.

Kamlesh Khunti (K)

Diabetes Research Centre, College of Life Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, LE5 4PW, UK.
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) East Midlands, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Alistair Nichol (A)

School of Medicine, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Adwoa Parker (A)

York Clinical Trials Unit, University of York, York, UK.

Amy M Russell (AM)

WHO Disability Team, Geneva/ Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK.

Victoria Shepherd (V)

Centre for Trials Research, Cardiff University, Neuadd Meirionnydd, Heath Park, Cardiff, CF14 4YS, UK.

Frances Shiely (F)

Health Research Board Clinical Research Facility and School of Public Health, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.

Gillian Shorter (G)

Drug and Alcohol Research Network, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.
Centre for Improving Health Related Quality of Life, School of Psychology, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK.

Bella Starling (B)

Public Programmes Team (now Vocal), Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Research & Innovation Division, The Nowgen Centre, 29 Grafton Street, Manchester, M13 9WU, UK.
NIHR Manchester Biomedical Research Centre, NIHR Manchester Clinical Research Facility, Manchester, UK.

Hywel Williams (H)

Centre of Evidence-Based Dermatology, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, UK.

Andrew Willis (A)

NIHR ARC East Midlands, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.

Miles D Witham (MD)

NIHR Newcastle Biomedical Research Centre, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, Newcastle University and Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Trust, Newcastle, NE4 5PL, UK.

Shaun Treweek (S)

Health Services Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB25 2ZD, UK. streweek@mac.com.

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