NCT05441579

Recruitment and Behavioral Economic Strategies

Application of Behavioral Economic Strategies to Enhance Recruitment Into a Pediatric Randomized Clinical Trial

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: Vanessa Olbrecht · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To determine the impact of the application of behavioral economic strategies on recruitment of pediatric patients into a randomized clinical trial assessing the impact of technology-based interventions on postoperative pain management.

Detailed description

Patients will be asked to watch one of two videos in either Phase 1 or Phase 2 relating to recruitment and fill out a survey to determine their likelihood to enroll in a research study. Patients 12-18 years of age presenting for surgery that requires postoperative admission and usually requires narcotic administration.

Conditions

• Surgery
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Economics (BE) recruitment strategies	Behavioral economics (BE), a method of economic analysis that applies psychological insights into human behavior to explain economic decision-making, has broad applicability and its techniques offer a novel way that may be applied to try to help enhance study recruitment and enrollment.
OTHER	Biofeedback-based virtual reality (VR-BF)	Phase 1 will focus on patients that would be enrolled into a biofeedback-based virtual reality (VR-BF) arm.
OTHER	Manage My Pain	Commercially available and free app to track, analyze and monitor pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-17
• Primary completion: 2022-09-08
• Completion: 2022-09-08
• First posted: 2022-07-01
• Last updated: 2024-12-20
• Results posted: 2024-12-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States