Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Volume 50, Issue 1, Pages 111-117Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.amepre.2015.07.036
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- NIH/National Cancer Institute [5 K01 CA155417-05]
- NIH Comprehensive Centers Support Grant [P30CA51008]
- NIH/National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Center of Excellence for Health Disparities in the Nation's Award [P60MD006920]
- NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE [K01CA155417, P30CA051008] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities [P60MD006920] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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Research suggests that community involvement is integral to solving public health problems, including involvement in clinical trials-a gold standard. Significant racial/ ethnic disparities exist in the accrual of participants for clinical trials. Location and cultural aspects of clinical trials influence recruitment and accrual to clinical trials. It is increasingly necessary to be aware of defining characteristics, such as location and culture of the populations from which research participants are enrolled. Little research has examined the effect of location and cultural competency in adapting clinical trial research for minority and underserved communities on accrual for clinical trials. Utilizing embedded community academic sites, the authors applied cultural competency frameworks to adapt clinical trial research in order to increase minority participation in nontherapeutic cancer clinical trials. This strategy resulted in successful accrual of participants to new clinical research trials, specifically targeting participation from minority and underserved communities in metropolitan Washington, DC. From 2012 to 2014, a total of 559 participants enrolled across six nontherapeutic clinical trials, representing a 62% increase in the enrollment of blacks in clinical research. Embedding cancer prevention programs and research in the community was shown to be yet another important strategy in the arsenal of approaches that can potentially enhance clinical research enrollment and capacity. The analyses showed that the capacity to acquire cultural knowledge about patients-their physical locales, cultural values, and environments in which they live-is essential to recruiting culturally and ethnically diverse population samples. (C) 2016 American Journal of Preventive Medicine
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