Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?

NCT ID: NCT05262114

Last Updated: 2022-08-24

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

20969 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2021-11-26

Study Completion Date

2022-04-30

Brief Summary

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The aim of this study is to re-examine the proportion of primary care patients that would be happy to be contacted about research of relevance to them. This study will examine the utility of SMS messages sent to patients by their general practice, with a link URL to an online questionnaire containing five research questions.

Detailed Description

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Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, the NIHR has played a critical role in the fight against this new disease with the delivery of COVID-19 research studies. Taking part in COVID-19 research is vital to enable effective treatments to be identified, evidenced and made available to NHS patients as quickly as possible. Over 100,000 UK participants have now enrolled in COVID-19 urgent public health research supported by the NIHR.

Keele Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) quickly implemented online data collection methodologies during 2020, in order to continue with recruitment of and retention of research participants and in response to the national lockdown and tiered systems implemented for protection of the population during the pandemic. There is now opportunity, to re-evaluate the proportion of primary care patients that would be happy to be contacted about research of relevance and also to assess the utility of online technologies, in particular SMS text messaging and an online survey platform, in the collection of the research data.

The specific research objectives of this study are:

1. To examine patient response rates to an invitation to complete an online Keele Health Survey questionnaire, delivered by SMS message from their general practice,
2. To examine the difference in patient response rates to the invitation to participate in the research study with and without a precursor test message (SMS).
3. To estimate the number of patients that would be happy to be contacted about future research studies relevant to their health.
4. To explore any demographic variances in completion responses.
5. To estimate research question completion rate feasibility, for future use of SMS messages containing a link URL to an online Keele Health Survey questionnaire to collect research data.

Conditions

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Patient Acceptability to Being Invited to Take Part in Research of Relevance to Them

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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Pre-cursor text

A pre-notification text message (SMS) will be sent to eligible people informing them of their imminent invitation to participate in The Who, two days later a brief text message (SMS) will be sent from the general practice to eligible people, inviting them to participate in The Who.

No interventions assigned to this group

Invitation only

A brief text message (SMS) will be sent from the general practice to eligible people, inviting them to participate in The Who.

No interventions assigned to this group

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Age - 18 years or over
* Mobile telephone number must be registered at general practice (doctor's surgery)

Exclusion Criteria

* Anyone under the age of 18
* Anyone who does not have their mobile phone number registered with their general practice (doctor's surgery)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Keele University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Sarah Lawton, MPhil

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Head of Operations - Clinical Trials Unit

Christian Mallen, Professor

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Head of School of Medicine

Locations

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Keele University: School of Medicine

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

Other Identifiers

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IRAS Number: 291348

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

RG-0322-21

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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