RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

描述(申请人提供)：社区招聘和保留(CRR)共享 设施是一个基础设施，旨在促进和协助CCC研究人员招募受试者参与临床研究，并在社区和UAB研究人员之间提供联系。该机制：1)为CCC研究人员提供多样化的招募服务(例如，设计招募战略、招募主题、编制招聘材料和广告等)；2)在CCC研究人员与周围社区之间提供并保持必要的联系，包括潜在的研究对象、社区组织、社区领袖和社区保健提供者；3)传播关于适合UAB调查人员招募和保留少数族裔对象的技术的文化上合适的信息；以及4)建立和维护一个具有招聘数据库的信息系统，该数据库由群发邮件系统(MMS)、招聘跟踪系统(RTS)和健康档案系统(HPS)组成，以识别具有UAB调查人员感兴趣的某些健康档案的受试者。自成立以来，CRR机构已经积累了超过24,000名参与23种癌症的个人 其中42%的参与者是少数族裔，78%的人是女性。在过去四年中，CRR将重点放在完善少数民族人口招募战略上，特别是在基于人口的研究方面。我们还开发了最先进的信息和跟踪系统，最后确定了操作程序，并加强和发展了与社区组织和卫生保健提供者的新伙伴关系。CRR仍然及时，具有重大的研究意义。建立一个集中的数据库、基础设施以及一般和针对少数群体的招募战略的专门知识，而不是随着每一项研究而重建，对CCPS和化学预防调查人员至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Community Recruitment and Retention (CRR) Shared Facility is an infrastructure designed to facilitate and assist CCC investigators in recruiting subjects to participate in clinical research and to provide linkage between the community and UAB Researchers. The Facility: 1) provides CCC researchers with diverse recruitment services (for example, designing recruitment strategies, recruiting subjects, developing recruitment materials and advertisements, etc.); 2) provides and maintains the necessary linkage between CCC researchers and the surrounding communities, including potential research subjects, community-based organizations, community leaders, and community health care providers; 3) disseminates culturally appropriate information regarding techniques for recruitment and retention of minority subjects suitable for UAB investigators; and 4) establishes and maintains an information system with a Recruitment Data Base (RDB) comprised of a Mass Mailing System (MMS), a Recruitment Tracking System (RTS), and a Health Profile System (HPS) to identify subjects with certain health profiles of interest to UAB investigators. Since its inception the CRR facility has had accrual of over 24,000 individuals participating in 23 cancer studies of which 42% of the participants were minorities and 78% women. In the last four years, the CRR focused its efforts on refining minority population recruitment strategies, especially for population-based studies. We also developed state-of-the-art information and tracking systems, finalized the operational procedures, and reinforced and developed new partnerships with community organizations and health care providers. The CRR remains timely and has significant research implications. Having in place a centralized database, an infrastructure, and expertise with general and minority-specific recruitment strategies, rather than rebuilding with each study, is of critical importance to CCPS and chemoprevention investigators.