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| IRAS Number: 291348 | Other Identifier | Integrated Research Application System (IRAS) |
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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.
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:
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Pre-cursor text | A pre-notification text message (SMS) will be sent to eligible people informing them of their imminent invitation to participate in The Who, two days later a brief text message (SMS) will be sent from the general practice to eligible people, inviting them to participate in The Who. | ||
| Invitation only | A brief text message (SMS) will be sent from the general practice to eligible people, inviting them to participate in The Who. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Estimate the proportion of people happy to be contacted by their practice | 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. | Over 4 weeks |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Patient response rates to invitation | To examine patient response rates to an invitation to complete an online questionnaire, delivered by SMS message from their general practice, | Over 4 weeks |
| Examine response rates using a precursor text message |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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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.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Sarah Lawton, MPhil | Head of Operations - Clinical Trials Unit | Principal Investigator |
| Christian Mallen, Professor | Head of School of Medicine | Study Director |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Keele University: School of Medicine | Newcastle-under-Lyme | Staffordshire | ST5 5BG | United Kingdom |
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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).
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| Explore any demographic variances in completion responses. | Compare self reported data. age, gender, ethnicity, | Over 4 weeks |
| To estimate research question completion rate feasibility | Estimationg the completion rates of the questionnaires will help to inform the future use of SMS messages and online questionnaires to collect research data. | Over 4 weeks |