Overcoming challenges of recruiting cancer patients into clinical trials: insights from a randomized trial of app-based smoking cessation interventions.

IF 3.6 3区 医学 Q2 ONCOLOGY
American journal of cancer research Pub Date : 2025-02-15 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.62347/SPVK4847
Margarita Santiago-Torres, Johann Lee Westmaas, Jamie S Ostroff, Kristin E Mull, Brianna M Sullivan, Joseph M Unger, Jonathan B Bricker
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Behavioral clinical trials among cancer patients often fail to meet recruitment goals - especially for underrepresented groups. Comparing recruitment strategies on participant accrual and cost can inform the use of cost-effective recruitment strategies for enrollment of diverse populations of cancer patients. In this study, we compared social media, internet sites, and clinic-based recruitment on accrual, cost, and characteristics of cancer patients (i.e., sociodemographic, cancer type/stage, and smoking habits) enrolled in a randomized trial of app-based smoking cessation interventions. Fisher's exact tests for categorical variables and analysis of variance for continuous variables were used to compared data between recruitment strategies. In 35 months, 427 cancer patients from 45 US states enrolled in the trial out of 3,936 screened (rate of participation, 10.8%). Social media recruited over eight times the number of enrolled participants (n=340, 79.6%) compared with Internet sites (n=43, 10.1%) and clinics (n=42, 9.8%). Most (80.1%) participants were women, with mean age 52.3 years. About 20.4% of participants were from underrepresented racial/ethnic backgrounds, 23.0% were rural residents, and 23.7% were uninsured. Over 32 cancer types and all cancer stages were represented. Breast cancer was the most common diagnosis (n=129/427, 30.2%), followed by lung cancer (n=96/427, 23.8%). Internet recruitment generated a higher proportion of men (30.2% vs. 26.2% clinics vs. 17.4% social media, P=.005). Clinics generated a higher proportion of Hispanic participants (9.5% vs. 7.0% Internet vs. 2.6% social media, P=.04) and cancer patients aged 65 and older (28.6% vs. 11.5% social media vs. 4.7% Internet, P=.01). Social media recruited a higher proportion of participants with low income (<$20,000: 39.1% vs. 23.3% Internet vs. 19.0% clinics, P<.001), who tended to have later stage cancers (stage IV: 17.4% vs. 14.0% Internet vs. 7.1% clinics, P=.05). Cost per randomized participant ranged from $270 via social media to $454 via Internet sites to $2,240 via clinic-based recruitment. In conclusion, social media was the most efficient and cost-effective method for recruiting a quality sample of racially/ethnically, geographically, socioeconomically, and clinically diverse sample of cancer patients into a smoking cessation clinical trial. Social media has solid potential for recruiting cancer patients into behavioral clinical trials.

克服招募癌症患者参与临床试验的挑战:基于应用程序的戒烟干预随机试验的启示。
在癌症患者中进行的行为临床试验常常不能达到招募目标——尤其是在代表性不足的群体中。比较参与者收益和成本的招募策略可以为不同癌症患者群体的招募使用具有成本效益的招募策略提供信息。在这项研究中,我们比较了社交媒体、互联网网站和基于诊所的招募,比较了参加基于应用程序的戒烟干预随机试验的癌症患者的收益、成本和特征(即社会人口统计学、癌症类型/阶段和吸烟习惯)。采用分类变量的Fisher精确检验和连续变量的方差分析来比较招聘策略之间的数据。在35个月的时间里,来自美国45个州的427名癌症患者在3936名筛查患者中参加了试验(参与率为10.8%)。社交媒体招募的参与者人数(n=340, 79.6%)是互联网网站(n=43, 10.1%)和诊所(n=42, 9.8%)的8倍多。大多数(80.1%)参与者为女性,平均年龄为52.3岁。约20.4%的参与者来自代表性不足的种族/民族背景,23.0%是农村居民,23.7%没有保险。超过32种癌症类型和所有癌症阶段都有代表。乳腺癌是最常见的诊断(n=129/427, 30.2%),其次是肺癌(n=96/427, 23.8%)。网络招聘产生了更高比例的男性(30.2% vs. 26.2%诊所vs. 17.4%社交媒体,P= 0.005)。诊所产生了更高比例的西班牙裔参与者(9.5% vs. 7.0%互联网vs. 2.6%社交媒体,P=.04)和65岁及以上的癌症患者(28.6% vs. 11.5%社交媒体vs. 4.7%互联网,P=.01)。社交媒体招募了较高比例的低收入参与者(PP= 0.05)。每个随机参与者的成本从社交媒体的270美元到互联网网站的454美元,再到诊所招聘的2240美元不等。综上所述,社交媒体是招募种族/民族、地域、社会经济和临床不同的癌症患者样本进行戒烟临床试验的最有效和最具成本效益的方法。社交媒体在招募癌症患者参加行为临床试验方面具有坚实的潜力。
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期刊介绍: The American Journal of Cancer Research (AJCR) (ISSN 2156-6976), is an independent open access, online only journal to facilitate rapid dissemination of novel discoveries in basic science and treatment of cancer. It was founded by a group of scientists for cancer research and clinical academic oncologists from around the world, who are devoted to the promotion and advancement of our understanding of the cancer and its treatment. The scope of AJCR is intended to encompass that of multi-disciplinary researchers from any scientific discipline where the primary focus of the research is to increase and integrate knowledge about etiology and molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis with the ultimate aim of advancing the cure and prevention of this increasingly devastating disease. To achieve these aims AJCR will publish review articles, original articles and new techniques in cancer research and therapy. It will also publish hypothesis, case reports and letter to the editor. Unlike most other open access online journals, AJCR will keep most of the traditional features of paper print that we are all familiar with, such as continuous volume, issue numbers, as well as continuous page numbers to retain our comfortable familiarity towards an academic journal.
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