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Recruiting schools, adolescents and parents to a sexual-health trial: experiences, challenges and lessons from the Jack Feasibility Trial
Dr Áine AventinProf. Maria LohanDr Lisa MaguireProf. Mike Clarke
RCTs in the Social Sciences Conference, University of York, 9th -10th September 2015
Overview
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The Jack Project
• Research design• The intervention
Feasibility Trial
• Aims• Recruitment
targets, strategies and outcomes
Experiences &
Lessons
• Recruitment challenges
• Recruitment facilitators
Jack Project
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2010 2012 2014 2016
PRE-PHASE I
Evidence building
PHASE I
Intervention development
PHASE II
Feasibility trial Northern
Ireland
PHASE III?
UK-wide full trial
The Intervention
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Unintended teenage pregnancy
Teenage men aged 14-16
Trained teachers
Parents
www.qub.ac.uk/IfIWereJack
Jack Feasibility Trial: Aims• Phase II Cluster RCT with
embedded process and economic evaluations
• Could we do a large trial?
• Is the intervention acceptable?
• Is participation in the trial acceptable?
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Recruitment Targets
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8 schools
Teachers
Year 11 pupils Parents Other
staff
Recruitment Strategies
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• Training days• Introductions• Cold-call
Schools
• Principal/Vice-principal• Introductory meetings• Face-to-face training
Teachers
• DVD home• Information sheets• Overview at data collection
Pupils
• DVD and information sheet• Letter from school• Text message/email
Parents
Recruitment outcomes
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Integrated Controlled Secondary
Catholic Maintained Secondary
Controlled
Grammar
Voluntary Catholic
Grammar
Voluntary ‘other
managed’Grammar
All
School recruitment rate (N recruited/ contacted)
100
2/2
100
1/1
67
2/3
100
1/1
13
1/8
17
1/6
38%
8/21
Pupil recruitment rate(N recruited/ contacted)
78
103/132
63
76/121
92
84/91
90
88/98
91
136/149
59
72/123
96
148/155
79
124/158
90%
831/1027
Teacherrecruitment rate(N)
9 3 4 7 7 1 7 2
100%
40
Parentrecruitment rate(N)
1 - 0 - 6 - - 3
7%
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Challenges Facilitators
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Credibility & Trust
Recruitment Challenges & Facilitators
Access
Time
Patience, persistence, politeness & RSE training days
Clarity and flexibility
Reliability, honesty, open communication & integrity
Challenges Facilitators
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Recruitment Challenges & Facilitators
Rapport
Engaging
The Little Things
What’s in it for us?
Build relationships and remember your
manners
Identify an ally and get to know each
school
Jack Feasibility Trial Team Members
Principal Investigators
Prof. Maria Lohan & Prof. Mike Clarke (QUB)
Co-investigators
Dr Áine Aventin; Dr Lisa Maguire; Dr Mark Linden;
Dr Laura Dunne; Dr Carmel Kelly; Dr Peter O’Halloran (QUB);
Dr Lisa McDaid (MRC Glasgow University);
Prof. Cam Donaldson (Glasgow Caledonian University);
Ms Cliona McDowell; Dr Ashley Agus (Northern Ireland Clinical Trials Unit)
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Related publications12
Aventin, Á., Lohan, M., Maguire, L. & Clarke, M. (forthcoming). Recruiting schools, adolescents and parents to a cluster randomised sexual-health trial: experiences, challenges and lessons from the Jack Feasibility Trial.
Aventin, Á., Lohan, M., O’Halloran, P., & Henderson, M. (2015). Design and development of a film-based intervention about teenage men and unintended pregnancy: applying the Medical Research Council framework in practice. Evaluation and Program Planning, 49: 19-30. Lohan, M., Aventin, Á., Oliffe, J.L., Han, C. & Bottorff, J.L. (2014) Knowledge translation in men’s health research: The development and delivery of content for use online. Journal of Medical Internet Research (in press). Lohan, M., Aventin, Á., Maguire, L., Clarke, M., Linden, M., & McDaid, L. (2014). Feasibility trial of a film-based educational intervention for increasing boys’ and girls’ intentions to avoid teenage pregnancy: Study protocol. International Journal of Educational Research, 68, 35-45. Aventin, Á., & Lohan, M. (2013). I’m all right, Jack. Every Child Journal, 3(5): 38-43.
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The intervention design was funded by the ESRC, HSE PHA & HSE Crisis Pregnancy Programme.
The Jack Feasibility Trial is funded by the National Institute for Health Research Public Health Research (NIHR PHR) Programme (project #12/153/26).The views and opinions expressed therein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NIHR PHR Programme or the Department of Health.
Acknowledgement of Research Funding
www.qub.ac.uk/IfIWereJack