Impacts of a Report-back Training Program

Expanding Effective Report-back of Environmental Exposures Among New Researchers

Researchers participate in a hands-on training program on returning personal exposure results, and pre- and post-tests assess outcomes shifts in knowledge and perspectives on its value, and willingness to implement report-back in current or future studies.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Behavioral Shift (Researcher Willingness to Report-back)
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Report-back training

Detailed Description

The investigators study the outcomes from a program that trains researchers to implement report-back, informs perspectives on the value of report-back, increases likelihood of adoption, and promotes insights from visualization of results. The investigators evaluate the training using pre- and post-tests. The training program includes an introductory module on ethical and practical benefits and best practices for report-back. This is followed by a session where researchers gain hands-on practice in report preparation using Digital Exposure Report-Back Interface (DERBI), a digital report-back tool. Pre- and post-tests assess outcomes related to their prior concerns about report-back, knowledge about report-back, shifts in perspectives on its value, novel insights about data from Researcher- DERBI, and willingness to implement report-back in current and future studies.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 56
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Massachusetts
    • Newton, Massachusetts, United States, 024600000
      • Virtual and in-person across the U.S.

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must be affiliated with a study that collects biomonitoring or personal exposure data

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Other
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Report-back training program; Researchers participate in a training program on sharing personal results. Pre-and post-tests are administered to evaluate shifts in perspectives and wiliness to report-back before and after the training program. There is no control group.	Behavioral: Report-back training; Researchers participate in a report-back training program to evaluate potential impacts on knowledge and future behaviors with respect to sharing personal exposure results with study participants.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Beliefs About Report-back, Before and After Training Program	Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each statement using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).	Participants completed surveys before and after the training program.
Concern About Report-back, Before and After Training Program	Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each of 3 statements about concerns about report-back using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Responses were summed together to calculate sum concern (3-15). Higher values indicate greater concern about report-back so a higher post-test score would indicate a worse outcome (i.e., that concern about report-back increased as a result of the training program.	Participants completed surveys before and after the single-day training program.
Perceived Benefits of Report-back, Before and After Training Program	Participants ranked how strongly they agreed with each of 5 statements about perceived benefits of report-back using a Likert-scale from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Responses were summed together to calculate sum perceived benefits (5-25). Higher values indicate stronger agreement with perceived benefits, so a higher post-test score would indicate a better outcome (i.e., that perceived benefits of report-back increased as a result of the training program).	Participants completed surveys before and after the single-day training program.

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Silent Spring Institute

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): June 22, 2023
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 15, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): December 15, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 13, 2023
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 13, 2023
• First Posted (Actual): September 21, 2023

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): May 7, 2026
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 5, 2026
• Last Verified: April 1, 2026

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Other Study ID Numbers: 1R21ES032934-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No