Jan 14, 2021
Differing demographic characteristics appear to determine trial participation
Brand new parents who agreed to enroll their infants in a neonatal clinical trial differed from those who declined participation in terms of self-identified race/ethnicity, income, and insurance coverage, researchers reported.
In a survey-based study of 369 parents, those who placed the infant in the HEAL study had lower rates of Medicaid participation (41.1% versus 55.3%,
P=0.04) and higher rates of annual income >$55,000 (52.8% versus 37.5%,
P=0.03) compared with those who declined, according to Elliott Mark Weiss, MD, MSME, of Seattle Children’s Hospital & Research Institute, and co-authors.
Additionally, Black parents had lower enrollment rates compared with White parents (odds ratio 0.35, 95% CI 0.17-0.73), they wrote in