Reporting and Representation of Participant Race and Ethnicity in National Institutes of Health-Funded Pediatric Clinical Trials.

Autor:	Lee LK; Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.; Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston, Massachusetts.; Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Narang C; Pediatric Therapeutics and Regulatory Science Initiative, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Rees CA; Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia., Thiagarajan RR; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.; Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston, Massachusetts.; Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Melvin P; Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston, Massachusetts.; Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts., Ward V; Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston, Massachusetts.; Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.; Department of Radiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.; Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts., Bourgeois FT; Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.; Pediatric Therapeutics and Regulatory Science Initiative, Computational Health Informatics Program, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	JAMA network open [JAMA Netw Open] 2023 Aug 01; Vol. 6 (8), pp. e2331316. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Aug 01.
DOI:	10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.31316
Abstrakt:	Importance: Enrolling racially and ethnically diverse pediatric research participants is critical to ensuring equitable access to health advances and generalizability of research findings. Objectives: To examine the reporting of race and ethnicity for National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded pediatric clinical trials and to assess the representation of pediatric participants from different racial and ethnic groups compared with distributions in the US population. Design, Setting, and Participants: This cross-sectional study included NIH-funded pediatric (ages 0-17 years) trials with grant funding completed between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2019, and trial results reported as of June 30, 2022. Exposures: National Institutes of Health policies and guidance statements on the reporting of race and ethnicity of participants in NIH-funded clinical trials. Main Outcomes and Measures: The main outcome was reporting of participant race and ethnicity for NIH-funded pediatric clinical trials in publications and ClinicalTrials.gov. Results: There were 363 NIH-funded pediatric trials included in the analysis. Reporting of race and ethnicity data was similar in publications and ClinicalTrials.gov, with 90.3% (167 of 185) of publications and 93.9% (77 of 82) of ClinicalTrial.gov reports providing data on race and/or ethnicity. Among the 160 publications reporting race, there were 43 different race classifications, with only 3 publications (1.9%) using the NIH-required categories. By contrast, in ClinicalTrials.gov, 61 reports (79.2%) provided participant race and ethnicity using the NIH-specified categories (P < .001). There was racially and ethnically diverse enrollment of pediatric participants, with overrepresentation of racial and ethnic minority groups compared with the US population. Conclusions and Relevance: This cross-sectional study of NIH-funded pediatric clinical trials found high rates of reporting of participant race and ethnicity, with diverse representation of trial participants. These findings suggest that the NIH is meeting its directive of ensuring diverse participant enrollment in the research it supports.
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