Contact information
Type
Scientific
Primary contact
Dr R A Harrison
ORCID ID
Contact details
Bolton Primary Care Trust
St Peter's House
Silverwell Street
Bolton
BL1 1PP
United Kingdom
+44 (0)1204 907728
Roger.Harrison@bolton.nhs.uk
Additional identifiers
EudraCT number
ClinicalTrials.gov number
Protocol/serial number
N0311114507
Study information
Scientific title
Acronym
Study hypothesis
Does a personalised addressed letter compared with a standard letter increase response rate to a postal questionnaire on service quality sent to people referred to an exercise referral scheme?
Ethics approval
Approval for the study was received in advance from the local research ethics committee and the research governance committee.
Study design
Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design
Interventional
Secondary study design
Randomised controlled trial
Trial setting
Not specified
Trial type
Screening
Patient information sheet
Condition
Exercise referral
Intervention
A two-group randomised trial of a personalised letter versus a standard letter.
Intervention type
Other
Phase
Not Specified
Drug names
Primary outcome measures
The number of completed questionnaires returned after completing all methods of follow-up.
Secondary outcome measures
Not provided at time of registration
Overall trial start date
01/06/2002
Overall trial end date
30/06/2003
Reason abandoned
Eligibility
Participant inclusion criteria
People living in the community of Bolton who had been referred to the exercise referral scheme over a three year period.
Participant type
Patient
Age group
Not Specified
Gender
Not Specified
Target number of participants
627
Participant exclusion criteria
Not provided at time of registration
Recruitment start date
01/06/2002
Recruitment end date
30/06/2003
Locations
Countries of recruitment
United Kingdom
Trial participating centre
Bolton Primary Care Trust
Bolton
BL1 1PP
United Kingdom
Sponsor information
Organisation
Department of Health
Sponsor details
Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom
Sponsor type
Government
Website
Funders
Funder type
Government
Funder name
Bolton Primary Care Trust (UK)
Alternative name(s)
Funding Body Type
Funding Body Subtype
Location
Results and Publications
Publication and dissemination plan
Not provided at time of registration
Intention to publish date
Participant level data
Not provided at time of registration
Results - basic reporting
Publication summary
Results in http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15537429
Publication citations
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Results
Harrison RA, Cock D, Increasing response to a postal survey of sedentary patients - a randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN45665423]., BMC Health Serv Res, 2004, 4, 1, 31, doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-4-31.