Clinical trial NCT02518893: Health Research Participation: Experiences and Decisions of Military Members
Official title: Health Research Participation: Experiences and Decisions of Military Members
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Conditions: Decision Making
Life Experiences
Keywords: Military Personnel
Air Force Personnel
Army Personnel
Navy Personnel
Armed Forces Personnel
Marines
Soldiers
Sailors
Airmen
Decision Making
Research Subjects
Life Experiences
Patient Participation
Refusal to Participate
Healthcare Research
Qualitative Research
Interview
Interviews, Telephone
Ethics, Research
Lead sponsor: University of Washington
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: TriService Nursing Research Program
name: Madigan Army Medical Center
name: United States Naval Medical Center, San Diego
First posted: 2015-08-10
Enrollment: 50
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 80
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Observational model: CASE_ONLY
Time perspective: CROSS_SECTIONAL
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Current United States military service members (active duty, reserve, or guard) of any service branch who have participated in military or civilian health care research within the past three years or who have declined research participation.

Brief summary: The purpose of the study is to describe service members' experiences as participants in health research, including their reasons for deciding for or against research participation.

Detailed description: Recent studies of war injuries have included as research participants US military service members returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the increased demand for military relevant research, little is known about the recent experiences of service members as research participants or about their research participation decisions.

The study aims are to: 1). Describe the experiences of military service members who have participated in health research; 2). Explore the reasons military service members decide for or against participation in health research; and 3). Identify effective strategies for promoting military service members' participation in research.

Demographic data will be collected from up to 50 service members who have participated in health research or who have previously declined research participation.

Up to 40 service members will participate in individual, in-depth, semi-structured interviews in person or via telephone.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* current US military member of any branch of service at time of screening
* experience as a research participant and/or previously declined participation in at least one health research study within the past three years
* age 18-80 years
* willing to participate in this study
* willing to be interviewed
* consents to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

* people who do not meet inclusion criteria
* unable to verbally communicate in English

Primary outcomes:
measure: Experiences of health research participation
timeFrame: Within past three years
measure: Research participation decisions
timeFrame: Within past three years
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Tacoma
country: United States
facility: Madigan Army Medical Center
state: Washington
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Washington
name: Wendy A Cook, PhD, MA, RN
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Cook WA, Doorenbos AZ. Indications of Recruitment Challenges in Research with U.S. Military Service Members: A ClinicalTrials.gov Review. Mil Med. 2017 Mar;182(3):e1580-e1587. doi: 10.7205/MILMED-D-16-00225.
citation: Cook WA, Doorenbos AZ, Bridges EJ. Trends in Research with U.S. Military Service Member Participants: A Population-Specific ClinicalTrials.gov Review. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2016 Aug 15;3:122-130. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2016.04.006. Epub 2016 Apr 30.
citation: Cook WA, Melvin KC, Doorenbos AZ. US Military Service Members' Reasons for Deciding to Participate in Health Research. Res Nurs Health. 2017 Jun;40(3):263-272. doi: 10.1002/nur.21785. Epub 2017 Feb 10.