RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION

描述（由申请人提供）：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，并提供社区和UAB研究人员之间的联系。 设施：1）为CCC研究人员提供多样化的招聘服务（例如，设计招聘策略，招聘主题，开发招聘材料和广告等）; 2)提供并保持CCC研究人员与周围社区之间的必要联系，包括潜在的研究对象，社区组织，社区领导人和社区卫生保健提供者; 3）传播文化上适当的信息，以招募和保留适合UAB研究人员的少数民族受试者;以及4）建立和维护一个信息系统，其中包括一个招聘数据库（RDB），该数据库包括一个批量邮件系统（MMS）、一个招聘跟踪系统（RTS），以及健康概况系统（HPS），用于识别具有UAB研究者感兴趣的某些健康概况的受试者。自成立以来，CRR设施已累计超过24，000人参与23种癌症 这些研究中，42%的参与者是少数民族，78%是妇女。在过去的四年里，CRR的重点是完善少数族裔人口招募策略，特别是针对基于人口的研究。 我们还开发了最先进的信息和跟踪系统，完成了操作程序，并加强和发展了与社区组织和医疗保健提供者的新伙伴关系。 CRR仍然是及时的，具有重要的研究意义。 建立一个集中的数据库、基础设施和具有一般和少数群体特定招募策略的专业知识，而不是随着每项研究而重建，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.