Participant Experience
Providing flexible visits schedules and transportation assistance addresses what key factor in retention?
What is logistical barriers?
Clean, regular, and empathetic _______ between sites and patients builds trust and supports retention.
What is communication?
Site staff turnover can harm retention; this strategy helps mitigate that risk.
What is ongoing staff training and documentation continuity?
Retained participants contribute to data _______ over time.
What is integrity or completeness?
Participants must always be reminded that participant is this.
What is voluntary?
Providing these small tokens of appreciation can enhance the sense of value and belonging for participants.
What are patient appreciation gifts or thank-you notes?
A good way to keep participants informed about study progress and upcoming visits is through _________.
What are newsletters or reminder calls/texts?
Providing sites with templates for follow-up calls helps ensure this kind of consistency
What is standardized communication?
Tracking the number of missed visits per participant helps estimate this key retention metric.
What is participant adherence?
Ensuring that participants understand the goals of the OLE is part of obtaining __________.
What is informed consent?
Tracking participation milestones (e.g., 6-month completion) and acknowledging them supports this psychological factor.
What is motivation or commitment reinforcement?
Offering multiple ways for participants to reach the study team helps address this common retention barrier.
What is limited accessibility or unresponsiveness.
This tool helps sites identify early warning signs of disengagement participants.
What are retention dashboards or tracking logs?
Data review meetings help identify and address these issues early.
What are retention or compliance concerns?
Retaining participants without coercion demonstrates compliance with this international guideline.
What is Good Clinical Practice (GCP)?
In long-term OLE studies, consistent engagement reduces the risk of this common challenge.
What is attrition (dropout)?
Using social media or digital platforms to share non-study specific wellness content can strengthen this relationship dimension.
What is patient engagement outside of trial tasks?
Training site staff to recognize early signs of participant fatigue falls under this retention domain.
What is proactive engagement management?
This type of analysis assesses patterns of participant dropout.
What is attrition or survival analysis?
When participants withdraw, documenting their reason accurately supports this ethical standard.
What is accountability or data integrity?
Gathering participant feedback mid-study helps identify these before they impact retention.
What are early warning signs of disengagement?
When communication about side effects in an OLE, teams should emphasize this key principle.
A strong partnership between sponsor and site supports the mutual goal of ________.
What is long-term patient retention?
Combining operation and patient-reported data helps design these targeted actions.
What are personalized retention interventions?
Transparency about potential risks supports which key ethical principle?
What is beneficence or respect for persons?