P1‐530: RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES OF PARTICIPANTS WITH MCI: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FREE MEMORY SCREENING

Abstract

Meeting recruitment and enrollment objectives for longitudinal studies has been a continuing struggle for clinical researchers. Many obstacles hinder enrollment of potential participants such as degree of interest, health exclusions and unwillingness to participate in study procedures. To gain a better perspective of and to adapt to these challenges, we have assessed what proportion of the community that participates in memory screening events enroll in a clinical study. The present study examines the demographic of the last 2 years of recruitment events and factors that play a role in enrollment success. Memory screenings were scheduled quarterly in both 2017 and 2018 at the UCSD Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer's Disease Research Center. Events were advertised through the newspaper in January of each year. Ten exam rooms were reserved for 30-minute appointments and a conference room was available as a resource for participants to gain access to support materials. Undergraduate and graduate students who received rigorous training administered Story A from the Logical Memory subtest of the Wechsler Memory Scale-Revised and the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) in English (n=555). The Mini-Mental State Exam and Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease were performed on Spanish-speaking participants (n=19). Within the resource room, staff reviewed screening results, determined from appropriate test normative data, with participants and provided information regarding research studies to those interested. 574 people (overall age= 74.4 years; education= 16.1 years; MoCA= 23.8) were screened at six memory screening events over the course of 2017 and 2018. Of the total of individuals screened, 378 participants consented to be a part of our registry database. From the total consented, 80 have enrolled in our longitudinal study.

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