6 Opportunities To Maximize Participant Engagement In Decentralized Trials

Participant engagement in clinical trials has been a long-standing challenge for the industry. Some estimates indicate 85% of trials fail to recruit enough participants and 80% are delayed due to recruitment challenges and high dropout rates.

Decentralized approaches can help address clinical trial participation barriers that traditional models have been unable to solve, unlocking new opportunities for improved recruitment by involving participant populations that are historically under-represented in clinical research.

This paper proposes the following six best practices as impactful opportunities for enhancing participant engagement, and they have been categorized into four phases within a DCT: Design, Initiation, Delivery, and Closeout.