Dataset for "Do participant testimony videos make people more interested in taking part in a clinical trial? A randomised Study Within a Trial (SWAT)"
Potentially eligible participants do not always agree to take part in trials when approached, which makes recruitment more challenging, time-consuming, and costly. We conducted a Study Within a Trial (SWAT) to evaluate the effectiveness of showing people brief video testimonies about taking part in research in increasing their interest in participating. This dataset includes information on what condition people were randomised to in the SWAT, and whether they expressed interest in the trial, whether they were screened, found to be eligible, and whether they ended up being randomised into the trial.
This is a dataset from a Study Within a Trial (SWAT) that examined whether watching participant testimony videos might improve recruitment. The dataset includes 7 variables (including anonymous ID number) for 480 participants in the SWAT. The Variables are:-
Participant ID
Allocated SWAT condition - 2 way comparison
Allocated SWAT condition - 3 way comparison
Did participant express interest in host trial?
Was participant screened for eligibility for host trial?
Was participant assessed as eligible to take part in host trial?
Was participant randomised into host trial?
Cite this dataset as:
Teale, A.,
Daryan, S.,
Fialho, C.,
Ricci, T.,
Taher, R.,
Yiend, J.,
Jacobsen, P.,
2025.
Dataset for "Do participant testimony videos make people more interested in taking part in a clinical trial? A randomised Study Within a Trial (SWAT)".
Bath: University of Bath Research Data Archive.
Available from: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01665.
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Data
SWAT Database_Archive.xlsx
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Code
SWAT Database Codebook.xlsx
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Software: MIT License
Creators
Ashley Teale
University of Bath
Shadi Daryan
University of Bath
Carolina Fialho
King's College London
Tanya Ricci
King's College London
Rayan Taher
King's College London
Jenny Yiend
King's College London
Pamela Jacobsen
University of Bath
Contributors
University of Bath
Rights Holder
Documentation
Data collection method:
The host trial was a randomised controlled trial of a digital intervention for paranoia (STOP; Successful Treatment of Paranoia). People who were referred to the host trial and opted to receive an online version of the Participant Information Sheet were eligible for enrolment into the SWAT. Before accessing the online Participant Information Sheet, people were randomly allocated to watch either a brief online video with patient testimonies about taking part in physical health research (general), mental health research (tailored to topic of host trial), or a no video control. We collected data on who expressed interest in taking part, and who went on to be randomised into the trial in each condition.
Documentation Files
SWAT Analysis Script_Archive.txt
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Codebook for dataset
Funders
Medical Research Council
https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000265
Biomedical Catalyst: Developmental Pathway Funding Scheme (DPFS)
MR/V027484/1
Publication details
Publication date: 14 July 2025
by: University of Bath
Version: 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15125/BATH-01665
URL for this record: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/1665
Related papers and books
Taylor, T., D’Alfonso, S., Dolan, M. J. T., Yiend, J., and Jacobsen, P., 2025. How do users of a mental health app conceptualise digital therapeutic alliance? A qualitative study using the framework approach. BMC Public Health, 25(1). Available from: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-23603-5.
Contact information
Please contact the Research Data Service in the first instance for all matters concerning this item.
Contact person: Pamela Jacobsen
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Psychology
