Trial Diversities

SCOPE These recommendations have been designed to aid researchers designing clinical trials to consider barriers to including older patients in their trial. The recommendations can also help researchers to develop strategies to attempt to address such barriers in order to improve the design and conduct of health and social care research. Although the recommendations were […]

The STRIDE project involved discussion in late 2022/early 2023 with ten panels of public contributors, trialists, health professionals and others.  These panels discussed a total of 23 trials with the aim of saying which ethnic groups the trials needed to include and what proportion of the trial population they should be. We have published a

SCOPE The trauma and resilience informed research principles and practices (TRIRPP) framework has been developed to enable researchers, including those designing trials, to apply a trauma-informed approach to their research – promoting resilience, avoiding re-traumatisation and improving study participation among those within our sampling frames who are facing trauma and chronic adversity which might otherwise

SCOPE This framework has been designed to aid researchers, who are designing clinical trials, to consider barriers to including patients from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds in their trial. The framework can also help researchers to develop strategies to attempt to address such barriers in order to improve the design and conduct of clinical research. Although this

SCOPE   The NIHR INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework is a tool for researchers to ensure that their trial is designed to be inclusive of people with impaired capacity to consent, as well as improving the quality of the trial design and funding application. It should preferably be used at the earliest stage when