What is the study about?

Addition of a pictorial aid to the patient information leaflet to improve recruitment in a randomised trial 

Who can take part in the study?

 Participants in the POSNOC trial

What is being tested in the study?

To determine whether the addition of a pictorial aid to the patient information leaflet (PIL) will improve recruitment in the POSNOC trial. A clearly illustrated pictorial aid at the end of the PIL to depict the randomisation process and crucial information about the two treatment arms in the POSNOC trial.

Recruitment is one of the most important challenges for multi-centre trials. Various techniques have been developed and tested over the years and new methodologies are continuing to be developed. Enhanced PIL may help with patients understanding of the trial and therefore boost recruitment. This is being tested in this SWAT, embedded in the POSNOC trial of auxiliarytreatment for women with breast cancer (NCT02401685), with participating sites randomised to use one of the PIL for all potentially eligible women.

Funder

Promethesus

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