Core 2: Recruitment and Retention Shared Resource Core

Amplifi招聘和保留(RR)共享资源核心(SRC)的主要目标是 支持Amplifi项目和适应、传播和实施(ADI)SRC，提供 招聘和留用服务。成功招募和留住研究参与者进行研究 项目对科学发现至关重要，在生存研究中往往是一个重大挑战。此SRC 建立在RR SRC领导人和其他Amplifi调查人员出色的集体工作基础上，他们成功地 在过去的20年里，他们招募了癌症幸存者进行研究。SRC利用令人印象深刻的 阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校的设施：招聘和保留共享设施(RRSF) UAB综合癌症中心是全国公认的少数族裔招募网站，曾在 包括前列腺癌、肺癌、结直肠癌和卵巢癌(PLCO)筛查在内的几项大型全国性努力 试验和癌症护理结果研究和监测联盟(CanCORS)。RR SRC 具体目标是：(1)招募参与者参加Amplifi项目和ADI SRC。招聘目标是 852名患有肥胖/体力活动相关癌症的幸存者，他们的5年生存率为70%(即I期多发性 骨髓瘤，局限性肾癌和结直肠癌，女性乳腺癌，前列腺癌， 子宫内膜和卵巢)；确诊后1-5年内；已完成原发癌 治疗；以及没有转移或复发。RR SRC将使用基于人口的确定 方法从4个具有显著代表性的州癌症登记机构(AL、MS、NC、TN)招募幸存者 老年、农村和未得到充分服务的少数民族。RR SRC还将为ADI SRC招募48名利益相关者 活动。将开发招募材料和一个网站，以提高幸存者的认识和 研究方面的知识。此外，虽然导航方法已被用于招募主要针对癌症的患者 治疗试验，RR SRC将以一种新的方式在这项行为研究中招募幸存者 克服参与的个人障碍。RR SRC将对整体和单独的招聘收益率进行监测 针对老年、农村和服务不足的少数群体幸存者，并不断应对招募方面的挑战； (2)留住Amplifi的参与者。留住学员的有目的的计划将以防止辍学为目标 在小学(通过仔细筛选潜在参与者从招募开始保留)，中学(早期 年可能辍学的幸存者的识别)和第三级(辍学的康复参与者) 研究人员、参与者和上下文域。与招聘办法一样，留用将包括 以增强研究意识和知识的原则为基础的简单、行之有效的措施，以及 导航进场。总而言之，RR SRC团队与其他Amplifi调查人员和 RRSF的专业工作人员具有独特和特殊的地位，可以实现拟议的目标， 加速实现Amplifi目标，并为推进生存研究作出贡献。

The primary objective of the AMPLIFI Recruitment and Retention (RR) Shared Resource Core (SRC) is to support the AMPLIFI Projects and the Adaptation, Dissemination and Implementation (ADI) SRC by providing recruitment and retention services. The successful recruitment and retention of study participants to research projects is critical to scientific discovery, and often a significant challenge in survivorship research. This SRC builds on exceptional collective work of the RR SRC leaders and other AMPLIFI investigators who successfully recruited cancer survivors to research studies for the past two decades. The SRC leverages an impressive facility at the University of Alabama at Birmingham: the Recruitment and Retention Shared Facility (RRSF) of the UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center is a nationally recognized minority recruitment site that has served in several large national efforts including the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) Cancer Screening Trial and the Cancer Care Outcomes Research and Surveillance Consortium (CanCORS). The RR SRC specific aims are to: (1) Recruit participants to AMPLIFI projects and ADI SRCs. The recruitment goal is 852 survivors with obesity/physical activity related cancers that have >70% 5-year survival (i.e., stage I multiple myeloma, localized kidney cancer and loco-regional cancers of the colorectum, female breast, prostate, endometrium, and ovary); who are from 1-5 years from diagnosis; who have completed primary cancer treatment; and who have no metastasis or recurrence. The RR SRC will use population-based ascertainment methods to recruit survivors from four state cancer registries (AL, MS, NC, TN) with a significant representation of older, rural and underserved minorities. The RR SRC will also recruit the 48 stakeholders for ADI SRC activities. Recruitment materials and a website will be developed to enhance survivors' awareness and knowledge of research. Moreover, while a navigation approach has been used to recruit to primarily cancer therapeutic trials, the RR SRC will use it in a novel way to recruit survivors in this behavioral research to overcome personal barriers to participation. The RR SRC will monitor recruitment yield overall and separately for older, rural and underserved minority survivors, and address recruitment challenges on an on-going basis; (2) Retain participants in AMPLIFI. A purposeful plan for retaining participants will target drop-out prevention at the primary (retention starting at recruitment by carefully screening potential participant), secondary (early identification of survivors who may drop-out) and tertiary (recovering participants who drop-out) level in Researcher, Participant and Contextual domains. As in the approach to recruitment, retention will include simple, proven measures enriched by the principles of enhancing research awareness and knowledge, and a navigation approach. In summary, the RR SRC team, together with other AMPLIFI investigators and the professional staff of the RRSF, is uniquely and exceptionally positioned to achieve the proposed aims, expedite the achievement of AMPLIFI goals, and contribute to the advancement of survivorship research.