Participant Recruitment and Management

摘要 参与者征聘和管理核心，由一名全职协调员和一名兼职协调员组成 研究助理和核心主任的指导下，从零开始设计，以提供 以下列方式协助中心调查人员的服务：(1)确定和招聘 参与者，(2)管理与现有研究参与者的联系，以及(3)提供培训 作为研究人员之间的联络人，当地机构审查委员会(IRB) 和人类学科联盟。帕洛阿尔托会议已经建立了必要的基础设施来实现这些目标。 具体地说，帕洛阿尔托研究中心设计了一些数据库，专门针对以下家庭 招聘和跟踪个人参与中心项目的情况，以及 可以作为招聘地点或作为招聘地点协助参与者招聘的区域组织 针对潜在参与者的资源。帕洛阿尔托研究中心还协助中心调查人员的招聘工作 通过提供针对特定地理区域的人口统计服务，将产生更多 高效的招聘。此外，帕洛阿尔托研究中心通过以下途径与过去的参与者保持定期联系 定期发送时事通讯和生日贺卡，并能够采用多种跟踪方法来 寻找“丢失的”家庭，从而最大限度地留住参与者。最后，核心汇聚了中心 调查人员和工作人员参加关于当前参与者目标确定和招募战略的研讨会，以及 人类主体政策的最新发展。这些专门的服务通常是不收费的 通过R01机制，在其他地方没有提供。对于未来，核心计划扩大其 以上概述的当前目标包括：1)加强与数字和电子产品的集成 中心的工程和分析技术及技术核心，2)改进的调查员 获得帕洛阿尔托研究中心的资源和服务，3)为招募参与者提供奖学金 和保留，以及4)为临床试验/转化性研究量身定做PARC服务。

Abstract The Participant Recruitment and Management Core, consisting of a full-time Coordinator and a parttime research assistant and guided by the Core Director, was designed from the ground up to provide services to assist center investigators in the following ways: (1) The identification and recruitment of participants, (2) Management of contacts with participants in existing studies, and (3) Provide training in human subjects and act as a liaison between investigators, the local institutional review board (IRB) and human subject consortiums. PARC has established the necessary infrastructure to meet these aims. Specifically, PARC has designed a number of databases geared towards targeting households for recruitment and keeping track of individuals' participation in Center projects, as well as a database of regional organizations that can assist in participant recruitment either as recruitment sites or as resources for targeting likely participants. PARC also assists Center investigators' recruitment efforts by providing demography services to target specific geographical areas that would result in more efficient recruiting. Furthermore, PARC maintains regular contact with past participants through regular newsletter and birthday card mailings, and is able to employ a number of tracking methods to find "lost" households, thus maximizing participant retention. Finally, the Core brings together Center investigators and staff for workshops on current participant targeting and recruitment strategies and the latest developments in human subject policies. These specialized services are often not fundable through R01 mechanisms and are not provided elsewhere. For the future, the Core plans to expand its current aims outlined above to include: 1) Greater integration with the Digital and Electrical Engineering and Analytic Techniques and Technology Cores of the Center, 2) Improved investigator access to PARC resources and services, 3) Contributions to the scholarship of participant recruitment and retention, and 4) Tailoring of PARC services to clinical trials/translational research.