Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?

Study Overview
=================
Brief Summary
-----------------
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
-----------------
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: To examine patient response rates to an invitation to complete an online Keele Health Survey questionnaire, delivered by SMS message from their general practice, 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). To estimate the number of patients that would be happy to be contacted about future research studies relevant to their health. To explore any demographic variances in completion responses. 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.

Official Title
-----------------
Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?

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

Participation Criteria
=================
Eligibility Criteria
-----------------
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)

Ages Eligible for Study
-----------------
Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
-----------------
All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
-----------------
Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
=================
How is the study designed?
-----------------

Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-cursor text<br>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. | |
| Invitation only<br>A brief text message (SMS) will be sent from the general practice to eligible people, inviting them to participate in The Who. | |

What is the study measuring?
-----------------
Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Estimate the proportion of people happy to be contacted by their practice | To estimate the proportion of people who are happy for their practice to contact them about any future research studies, which are relevant to their health. | Over 4 weeks | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Patient response rates to invitation | To examine patient response rates to an invitation to complete an online questionnaire, delivered by SMS message from their general practice, | Over 4 weeks | 
| Examine response rates using a precursor text message | 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). | Over 4 weeks | 
| Explore any demographic variances in completion responses. | Compare self reported data. age, gender, ethnicity, | Over 4 weeks | 
| To estimate research question completion rate feasibility | Estimationg the completion rates of the questionnaires will help to inform the future use of SMS messages and online questionnaires to collect research data. | Over 4 weeks |