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Table 1 Intervention social cognitive theory (SCT) determinants, methods and practical applications

From: Recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities to clinical trials conducted within specialty clinics: an intervention mapping approach

SCT determinants

Theoretical methods

Practical applications

Knowledge

• Discussiona

• Discussion with specialist investigators and coordinators at in person meeting and subsequent webinars

• Elaborationa

• Specialist investigators prompted to discuss clinical experiences relating to differences in outcomes by race and ethnicity

Skills and

self-efficacy

• Modelingb

• Videos

• Skills trainingb

• In person meeting

• Continuous quality improvement (CQI) training

• Group work: mapping recruitment process and completion of fishbone diagram

• Web-based educational modules (communication, navigation, CQI)

• Feedbackc

• Reports (on screening, recruitment and patient satisfaction)

• Individual follow-up calls

• Group calls with other sites

• Goal settingc

• Minority recruitment plan

• Verbal persuasionb

• Videos

• Individual follow-up calls

• Active learningb

• Individual follow-up calls

• Videos

• Web-based educational modules

• Persuasive communicationb

• Presentations at in-person meeting

• Web-based educational modules

• Individualizationd

• Individual follow-up calls

Outcome expectations

• Modelingb

• Videos

• Group calls with other sites

• Active learningb

• In-person meeting

• Web-based educational modules

  1. aTheory of information processing
  2. bSocial cognitive theory
  3. cGoal setting theory
  4. dTrans-theoretical model