13,000
Participants
Start Date
January 1, 2014
Primary Completion Date
December 20, 2015
Study Completion Date
December 20, 2016
Invitation letter randomisation
"There are 12 versions of the invitation letter. Three aspects of the letter will be adapted: (1) Gender of the signatory i.e. male, female or gender neutral (signed from the NICOLA team) (2) Description of NICOLA as a 'study' or 'project' and (3) Inserting a sentence guaranteeing the participants confidentially or not having this in the letter (but will still appear in the Patient Information Sheet). The twelve versions are as follows:~1. Male \& Study \& Confidentiality~2. Male \& Study~3. Male \& Project \& Confidentiality~4. Male \& Project~5. Female \& Project \& Confidentiality~6. Female \& Project~7. Female \& Study \& Confidentiality~8. Female \& Study~9. Neutral \& Study \& Confidentiality~10. Neutral \& Study~11. Neutral \& Project \& Confidentiality~12. Neutral \& Project"
Lisa Maguire, Belfast
Queen's University, Belfast
OTHER