Participant Recruitment and Management

摘要 参与者招募和管理核心，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，是从地面上设计，以提供 （1）研究人员的识别和招募; 参与者，（2）管理与现有研究参与者的联系，以及（3）提供培训 并作为研究者、当地机构审查委员会（IRB） 和人类实验者联盟PARC已经建立了必要的基础设施来实现这些目标。 具体而言，帕洛阿尔托研究中心设计了一些针对家庭的数据库， 招募和跟踪个人参与中心项目的情况，以及 可以作为征聘地点或作为 有针对性的参与者。PARC还协助中心调查人员的招聘工作 针对特定地理区域提供人口统计服务， 高效招聘此外，PARC通过以下方式与过去的参与者保持定期联系： 定期通讯和生日贺卡邮寄，并能够采用一些跟踪方法， 找到“失踪”家庭，从而最大限度地留住参与者。最后，核心将中心 调查员和工作人员参加关于目前参与者选择和征聘战略的讲习班， 人类主体政策的最新发展这些专门服务往往得不到资助 通过R 01机制，其他地方没有提供。在未来，核心计划扩大其 上述当前目标包括：1）与数字和电气的更大整合 工程和分析技术和中心的技术核心，2）改进的调查员 获得PARC的资源和服务，3）参与者招募奖学金的贡献 和保留，以及4）为临床试验/转化研究定制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.