Spreading Teen-Recorded Inspirational Videos to Engage Schoolmates
Completed
Conditions studied: Communication
In brief
While few students may consider a career in research at baseline, receiving information from peers via online social networks represents a potential way of reaching underserved minority students. This study addresses a critical problem in the process to diversify the pipeline of clinical researchers - how to cultivate baseline interest in research among high achieving youth before they participate in pipeline programs. We will seek to challenge existing paradigms of studying effectiveness of interventions to promote entry of minority youth into clinical research careers through testing a novel social media campaign that aims to increase interest in research careers among schoolmates of students in a pipeline program. We are testing the use of of peer-created and inspired videos about career choice as a novel way to develop messages that have potential to influence teens. Should this research program be successful, it will yield valuable insights for researchers and educators who are attempting to train minority students about the importance of involving youth in creating materials to recruit and retain minorities into pipeline programs and educational programs targeted towards clinical research.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02065206
- Run by
- University of Chicago
- People needed
- 554
- Starts
- 2014-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2019-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2021-06-01
Who can join
Age: 15 and older, up to 17. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- To be eligible to participate in this study, the subjects must be between the ages of 15-17 years old. The focus group participants will be recruited from the Collegiate Scholars Program which is a pipeline program for Chicago Public School students.
- The feedback group will be recruited by friends involved in the Teach Research study. They must be named by one of their friends participating in Teach Research.
You may not qualify if…
- Participants 18 years or older as well as wards of the state will be excluded from the study.
Where it is running
- University of Chicago Medical Center — Chicago, Illinois, United States
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