Research volunteer identification
Increasing participation in research
The research volunteer identification service helps investigators find, recruit and enroll groups of people who are underserveded in biomedical research.
The Integrating Special Populations Program's research volunteer identification service helps research teams identify individual-level socioeconomic measures, enabling outreach to participants to support greater representation in research.
The service helps investigators plan studies and recruit and enroll participants in a way that represents regional populations proportionally by factors, including:
- Rural status
- Socioeconomic status
- Estimation of distance from study subject to a reference place
The research volunteer identification service provides investigative teams with lists of potentially eligible people based on socioeconomic status, as defined by the HOUSES index; Area Deprivation Index; Rural-Urban Community Area classification; urban and rural classification, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau; and estimation of distance from study subject to study location.
This service enables researchers to more effectively and efficiently reach special populations and meet recruiting goals.
Contact
For more information about the research volunteer identification service, contact: