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NCT Number: NCT05262114

Would You be Happy to be Contacted About Research?

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.

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Key information

Conditions

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

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Keele University: School of Medicine

Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, ST5 5BG, United Kingdom

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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)

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

Estimate the proportion of people happy to be contacted by their practice

Time frame: Over 4 weeks

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.

Secondary outcomes

Patient response rates to invitation

Time frame: Over 4 weeks

To examine patient response rates to an invitation to complete an online questionnaire, delivered by SMS message from their general practice,
Examine response rates using a precursor text message

Time frame: Over 4 weeks

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).
Explore any demographic variances in completion responses.

Time frame: Over 4 weeks

Compare self reported data. age, gender, ethnicity,
To estimate research question completion rate feasibility

Time frame: Over 4 weeks

Estimationg the completion rates of the questionnaires will help to inform the future use of SMS messages and online questionnaires to collect research data.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Keele University

Other

Registry information

Acronym: The Who

Important dates

Study start: 2021
Primary completion: 2022
Study completion: 2022
First posted: Mar 2, 2022
Registry last updated: Aug 24, 2022

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.