Clinical trial NCT05262114: Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?
Official title: Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Patient Acceptability to Being Invited to Take Part in Research of Relevance to Them
Lead sponsor: Keele University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2022-03-02
Enrollment: 20969
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: ECOLOGIC_OR_COMMUNITY
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: The study population will be comprised of individuals who are aged 18 years of age or older and must have their mobile phone number registered with their general practice. Participants will be registered with a GP surgery within the West Midlands CRN network of practices, situated within England, UK.

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:

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.

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)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Estimate the proportion of people happy to be contacted by their practice
timeFrame: Over 4 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Patient response rates to invitation
timeFrame: Over 4 weeks
measure: Examine response rates using a precursor text message
timeFrame: Over 4 weeks
measure: Explore any demographic variances in completion responses.
timeFrame: Over 4 weeks
measure: To estimate research question completion rate feasibility
timeFrame: Over 4 weeks
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Newcastle under Lyme
country: United Kingdom
facility: Keele University: School of Medicine
state: Staffordshire
Study officials:
affiliation: Head of Operations - Clinical Trials Unit
name: Sarah Lawton, MPhil
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
affiliation: Head of School of Medicine
name: Christian Mallen, Professor
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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