General Consults and Inclusion of Special Populations
The CTSC is dedicated to engaging unique populations 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 a variety of populations.
Need help identifying and reaching additional participants for your study? The CTSC hosts a database of over 2500 people who signed up to be notified about research study opportunities. Researchers in the CTSC can request to utilize the database to identify and reach more potential participants for their study.
Research Match is a secure NIH-sponsored volunteer registry available to researchers in the CTSC. Research Match can be used for feasibility queries or to search and view aggregate data. With IRB approval researchers can contact and recruit locally and nationally registered volunteers in the system.
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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?
- Eligibility age?
- Are you planning to target more than one population, and if so, which 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?