New Publication: Increasing Minority Enrollment in Lupus Clinical Trials

In collaboration with our amazing partners at the American College of Rheumatology, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and the University of Rochester Medical Center, KDHRC published evaluation findings from an Office of Minority Health- (OMH) funded project to engage providers and community health workers (CHWs) to increase minority participation in lupus clinical trials.

The study demonstrates how the Training to Increase Minority Enrollment in Lupus Clinical Trials with Community Engagement (TIMELY) program successfully improved provider and CHW knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy and intentions in referring underrepresented patients to lupus clinical trials. Notably, provider self-efficacy and referral intentions showed significant improvement and were sustained even three months after the intervention. These findings underscore the value of collaborative education and dialogue between healthcare providers, CHWs, and clinical trial sites to increase representation in clinical research participation.

Check out the full publication and learn more about how TIMELY is paving the way for lupus clinical trials to reflect the population impacted by this disease: https://acrjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acr.25419