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Increasing Health Literacy to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment

Increasing Health Literacy to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment

Saliha Akhtar
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
ISBN13: 9781522540748|ISBN10: 1522540741|EISBN13: 9781522540755
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8.ch006
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Akhtar, Saliha. "Increasing Health Literacy to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment." Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices, edited by Vassilios E. Papalois and Maria Theodosopoulou, IGI Global, 2018, pp. 94-108. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8.ch006

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Akhtar, S. (2018). Increasing Health Literacy to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment. In V. Papalois & M. Theodosopoulou (Eds.), Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices (pp. 94-108). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8.ch006

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Akhtar, Saliha. "Increasing Health Literacy to Improve Clinical Trial Recruitment." In Optimizing Health Literacy for Improved Clinical Practices, edited by Vassilios E. Papalois and Maria Theodosopoulou, 94-108. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-4074-8.ch006

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Abstract

Health literacy has been found to be linked to healthcare understanding and decision making. Therefore, it makes sense why individuals who do not understand clinical trials will be less likely to want to enroll in one. In fact, three major barriers found in the literature that prevent potential participants from enrolling in clinical trials include a distrust or negative perception, lack of understanding, and lack of accessible and affordable healthcare. Hence, there is a need to increase potential participants' healthcare understanding so that they can make the best healthcare decisions for themselves. Strategies suggested to help increase potential participants' health literacy include revising informed consent forms, utilizing culturally targeted statements, using a variety of material, and training investigative site personnel. These proposed strategies may help increase health literacy, which in turn could improve clinical trial recruitment. Furthermore, these strategies focus on different elements of health literacy and coupled together may bring the most improvement.

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