Open AccessDirect Mail Recruitment to a Potential Participant Registry
Author(s) -
Adrijana Gombosev,
Christian R. Salazar,
Dan Hoang,
Chelsea G. Cox,
Daniel L. Gillen,
Joshua D. Grill
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
alzheimer disease and associated disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.213
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1546-4156
pISSN - 0893-0341
DOI - 10.1097/wad.0000000000000368
Subject(s) - accrual , family medicine , medicine , direct mail , gerontology , advertising , business , accounting , earnings
Recruitment registries are novel tools to accelerate Alzheimer disease research accrual. Optimal methods to populate such registries remain largely unstudied. We sent postcards with 3 unique taglines (Alzheimer's Prevention Research, brain health research, general research) to 100,000 local residents aged 50 years and older to assess the effectiveness of recruiting to an online recruitment registry by mail. The postcard campaign recruited 273 new registry enrollees (0.27% overall response rate). Neither the response rate nor the demographic characteristics of recruited participants differed by the postcard tagline. These results suggest that direct mail may not be the most cost-effective approach to recruit participants to online registries.