NCT04991285

People of Color and Dermatology: A Deeper Look at Patients' Perceptions of Care and the Need for Greater Diversity in Dermatology

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 485 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northwestern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: —

Summary

Surveys will be collected to evaluate views from people of color and their dermatology experience. The information collected will look at patients' perceptions of care and the need for greater diversity in dermatology.

Detailed description

This survey looks to gain a much-needed perspective from POC in order to better understand their views on 1. the field of dermatology 2. the diversity in dermatology and its acceptance of skin of color and hair 3. skin of color centers 4. Race concordant dermatology and 5. perceived views on dermatologic training. The sample size will be the number of participants that respond to the survey, with a target sample size of 1000 respondents. Eligible participants need to identify with at least one of the following groups * Black or African American * Latinx * American Indian or Alaska Native * Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander * Asian Participants will need to be over the age of 18 years old, English-speaking/English proficient and anticipated to be living within the United States. Recruitment and screening will be done through ResearchMatch.

Conditions

• Dermatology

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-08-06
• Primary completion: 2021-10-26
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2021-08-05
• Last updated: 2023-11-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States