General Consults and Inclusion of Special Populations
The CTSC is dedicated to engaging underrepresented populations – like those distinguished by language, disability, condition, risk, culture, geographic location/dispersion, socioeconomic status, race or ethnicity – at all levels of research and in all of our programs. The CTSC has a Recruitment Specialist ready to provide consultations to meet your recruitment goals. They can help you access institutional expertise in recruiting special populations. They can assist in the development of a recruitment plan and guide you in creating advertising, social media and hospital network or community recruitment events.
At each site, institutional expertise is available to guide investigators in using the strength of our northeast Ohio networks to recruit special populations:
| Diverse Populations |
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| Hispanic Americans |
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African American |
| Amish |
| LGBTQ |
| Geriatrics |
| Women's and Perinatal Health |
| Veterans |
| Child Health/Pediatrics |
| Disabled Persons |
| Psychiatric Populations |
| Specific Conditions and Rare Diseases |
Contact Us
To help your Participant Recruitment Specialist help you, are you prepared to discuss:
- Funding source? (Department, Industry, Federal, Foundation, etc.)
- What stage are you in project implementation? (study design, ready to submit to the IRB, in IRB review, IRB-approved)
- Have you conducted a feasibility assessment at your site?
- How many participants are to be enrolled?
- Proposed enrollment start date?
- Proposed enrollment end date?
- Potentially challenging inclusion/exclusion criteria?
- Genders to recruit?
- Eligibility age?
- Are you planning to target special populations and if so, what populations?
- Potential recruitment sites you’d like to access? (academic teaching hospitals, community sites, other)
- What recruitment methods would you like to use?
- Will you be using E-consent?
- Have you written a recruitment plan?
Request Services or Consultation
To submit a request for services: SPARCRequest