Recruitment procedures
word of mouth
RECRUITMENT
Participants will be recruited through a variety of strategies including mailings, emails, flyers, presentations in the community, databases for clinical trials (i.e., ResearchMatch ClinicalTrials.gov, etc.), schools and community organizations that give permission, word of mouth, social media postings and advertisements. We will work with the CHOP Recruitment Enhancement Core (REC) and the Pediatric Research Consortium (PeRC) using emails, letters, social media postings (CHOP’s Facebook or Instagram).Interested people will contact the study team and be screened by phone for eligibility by a member of the study team. The study team will either schedule or re-contact interested participants for consent and assent. The study team will send parents an electronic copy of the consent (through REDCap) and schedule a zoom call with the parent and teen to verbally review the form; parents of participants will review and record written consent electronically in REDCap (via the e-Consent framework). With the REDCap-based e-Consent framework, signatures (typed name and electronic signature via mouse) will be obtained electronically. Parents will be asked to provide their child’s name and email. The REDCap e-consent framework is a secure, web-based, HIPAA-compliant, data collection platform with a user management system allowing project owners to grant and control varying levels of access to data collection instruments and data (e.g. read only, de-identified-only data views) for other users. Upon completion of the consent encounter, participants will be provided with their signed copy of the consent document by email, as well as the option to download a blank form for their records. Teens will then provide written assent via REDCap’s e-consent. In assent, participants will be asked to provide their signature, first and last name, date of birth, email, and the date that they are signing the form. After assent, participants will be emailed or able to download a copy of their signed form. If a participant turns 18 after enrolment, they will be re-consented again using the REDCap e-Consent framework. After dyads have documented parental consent, parental permission, and provided teen assent (baseline) and eligibility is confirmed, dyads will be randomized using a table of random numbers and start survey procedures.