Increasing Minority Participation in Clinical Trials

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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This study will measure the effects of an office-based, clinical trial education video on clinical trial knowledge and enrollment in clinical trials, in a clinical sample with no previous history of clinical trial participation. This study will also determine the feasibility of implementing an office-based video educational program.

Detailed Description
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Clinical trials are essential to scientific discovery and are critical to translating research in to practice. Despite their significance, clinical trial participation rates remain low, especially among underrepresented minority groups. Several barriers exist to minority group participation in clinical trial, one of which lack of awareness about clinical trials. Video educational programs show promise as an effective strategy to increase knowledge and clinical trial participation. The specific aims are as follows: Measure the effects of an office-based, clinical trial education video on clinical trial knowledge and enrollment in clinical trials, in a clinical sample with no previous history of clinical trial participation. Determine the feasibility of implementing an office-based video educational program.

Official Title
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Increasing Minority Group Participation in Clinical Trials a Randomized Controlled Study of an Office-based Educational Video

Conditions
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Clinical Trial

Intervention / Treatment
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* Procedure: Video viewing group


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Participants will be patients of Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) with a diagnosis of cancer Participants will have no previous history of clinical trial research participation Exclusion Criteria: Previous history of clinical trial research participation

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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No

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Other
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| No Intervention: Standard care/control group<br>First, participants will complete a brief electronic survey measuring their opinions on clinical trials. Next, participants in the standard of care group will be provided standard educational resources (booklet and DVD), with no additional instructions. Participants in this groups will be informed that a team member will call him/her in approximately 1 week to ask him/her the (same) questions about clinical research. | |
| Experimental: Video viewing group<br>First, participants will complete a brief electronic survey measuring their opinions on clinical trials. Next, participants in the video viewing group will watch the 10-minute DVD video on tablet devices using headphones in the clinic. Participants in this groups will be informed that a team member will call him/her in approximately 1 week to ask him/her the (same) questions about clinical research. | Procedure: Video viewing group<br>* First, participants will complete a brief electronic survey measuring their opinions on clinical trials. Next, participants in the video viewing group will watch the 10-minute DVD video on tablet devices using headphones in the clinic. Participants in this groups will be informed that a team member will call him/her in approximately 1 week to ask him/her the (same) questions about clinical research.<br>* Other names: video group;|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| study feasibility | The stages of implementation completion (SIC) measure will be used as an internal tool utilized by the study team to track time to achievement of key implementation milestones. An 8-stage implementation plan to measure feasibility of the office-based educational program will be executed across 3 phases. Three scores will be derived from the SIC measure. The first score is the number of stages completed. The second score is the time spent at each stage. The third score is the proportion of activities completed at each stage. Implementation of the SIC model poses no additional burden on study participants. | 12 months | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Clinical trial participation | Information on clinical trial participation will be collected by a team member by reviewing the participants' health record and by contacting the VICC clinical trial team. | 12 months | 
| Clinical trial knowledge survey | This survey consist of 22-items assessing a participants views on clinical trials on 5 domains (positive beliefs, safety, information needs, negative expectations, and patient involvement). | 7-10 days | 
| Likelihood to participate survey | This survey consist of 5-items assessing reasons for not participating in research, views about sources of research, views about sharing of research data, trust, and willingness to advise research teams. | 7-10 days | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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minority group recruitment, stages of implementation, clinical trials education