Behavioral Shift (Researcher Willingness to Report-back)
Conditions
Brief summary
Researchers participate in a hands-on training program on returning personal exposure results, and pre- and post-tests assess outcomes shifts in knowledge and perspectives on its value, and willingness to implement report-back in current or future studies.
Detailed description
The investigators study the outcomes from a program that trains researchers to implement report-back, informs perspectives on the value of report-back, increases likelihood of adoption, and promotes insights from visualization of results. The investigators evaluate the training using pre- and post-tests. The training program includes an introductory module on ethical and practical benefits and best practices for report-back. This is followed by a session where researchers gain hands-on practice in report preparation using Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI), a digital report-back tool. Pre- and post-tests assess outcomes related to their prior concerns about report-back, knowledge about report-back, shifts in perspectives on its value, novel insights about data from Researcher- DERBI, and willingness to implement report-back in current and future studies.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALReport-back training
Researchers participate in a report-back training program to evaluate potential impacts on knowledge and future behaviors with respect to sharing personal exposure results with study participants.
Sponsors
Silent Spring Institute
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Must be affiliated with a study that collects biomonitoring or personal exposure data
Exclusion criteria
* Under 18
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Concern About Report-back, Before and After Training Program | Participants completed surveys before and after the single-day training program. | Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each of 3 statements about concerns about report-back using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Responses were summed together to calculate sum concern (3-15). Higher values indicate greater concern about report-back so a higher post-test score would indicate a worse outcome (i.e., that concern about report-back increased as a result of the training program. |
| Perceived Benefits of Report-back, Before and After Training Program | Participants completed surveys before and after the single-day training program. | Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each of 5 statements about perceived benefits of report-back using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Responses were summed together to calculate sum perceived benefits (5-25). Higher values indicate stronger agreement with perceived benefits, so a higher post-test score would indicate a better outcome (i.e., that perceived benefits of report-back increased as a result of the training program). |
| Beliefs About Report-back, Before and After Training Program | Participants completed surveys before and after the training program. | Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each statement using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). |
Countries
United States
Participant flow
Recruitment details
We facilitated report-back training workshops, including two in-person workshops at the International Society for Epidemiology (ISEE) and Partnerships for Environmental Public Health (PEPH) conferences, and three virtual workshops. Participants were recruited through conferences advertising the workshops (e.g., during conference registration), and through emailing individuals directly from a list we compiled of NIH-funded environmental health researchers.
Pre-assignment details
Participants were not assigned to an arm or group. Rather, for all individuals who participated in a report-back training program, we evaluated any shifts in participants perspectives on environmental health report-back and wiliness to report-back with pre- and post-tests.
Baseline characteristics
| Characteristic | — |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Hispanic or Latino | 7 Participants |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Not Hispanic or Latino | 26 Participants |
| Ethnicity (NIH/OMB) Unknown or Not Reported | 23 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) American Indian or Alaska Native | 1 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Asian | 2 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Black or African American | 0 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) More than one race | 2 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | 0 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) Unknown or Not Reported | 25 Participants |
| Race (NIH/OMB) White | 26 Participants |
| Region of Enrollment United States | 56 Participants |
| Sex/Gender, Customized Female | 29 Participants |
| Sex/Gender, Customized Male | 4 Participants |
| Sex/Gender, Customized Sex/gender unknown | 23 Participants |
Adverse events
| Event type | EG000 affected / at risk |
|---|---|
| deaths Total, all-cause mortality | 0 / 0 |
| other Total, other adverse events | 0 / 0 |
| serious Total, serious adverse events | 0 / 0 |
Outcome results
None listed