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Recruitment For A Guided Self-Help Binge Eating Trial: Potential Lessons For Implementing Programs In Everyday Practice Settings, R Striegel, L Debar, B Yarborough, F Rosselli, N Perrin, G Wilson, H Kraemer, R Green, F Lynch
Recruitment For A Guided Self-Help Binge Eating Trial: Potential Lessons For Implementing Programs In Everyday Practice Settings, R Striegel, L Debar, B Yarborough, F Rosselli, N Perrin, G Wilson, H Kraemer, R Green, F Lynch
Ruth H Striegel
Objective
To explore effects of various recruitment strategies on randomized clinical trial (RCT)-entry characteristics for patients with eating disorders within an everyday health-plan practice setting.
Methods
Randomly selected women, aged 25-50, in a Pacific Northwest HMO were invited to complete a self-report binge-eating screener for two treatment trials. We publicized the trials within the health plan to allow self-referral. Here, we report differences on eating-disorder status by mode and nature of recruitment (online, mail, self-referred) and assessment (comprehensive versus abbreviated) and on possible differences in enrollee characteristics between those recruited by strategy (self-referred versus study-outreach efforts).
Results
Few differences emerged …