Representation in clinical trials sponsored by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

Background This study was conducted to determine whether demographic representation among U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-sponsored trials differs from trials without VA sponsorship, with reference to VA patient demographics. Methods U.S. clinical trials registered between 1 March 2000 and...

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Publicado en:Journal of Public Health Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 203 - 207
Autores principales: Gomez, Gabriela T, Turner, Brandon E, Steinberg, Jecca R, Lam, Miranda B, Wren, Sherry M
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jun2025
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          Gomez, Gabriela T
          Turner, Brandon E
          Steinberg, Jecca R
          Lam, Miranda B
          Wren, Sherry M
        affil: Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
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          Sociodemographic Factors
          United States Department of Veterans Affairs
          Clinical Trials Evaluation
          Research Support
          Research Subject Recruitment
          Human
          Treatment Outcomes
          Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test
          Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
          Descriptive Statistics
          African Americans
          Veterans Health Services Administration
          Ethnic Groups
          Kruskal-Wallis Test
          Data Analysis Software
          Asians
          Hispanic Americans
      ab: Background This study was conducted to determine whether demographic representation among U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)-sponsored trials differs from trials without VA sponsorship, with reference to VA patient demographics. Methods U.S. clinical trials registered between 1 March 2000 and 1 February 2022 were stratified into VA and non-VA groups. Outcomes included the combined percentage of non-White participants in each trial and enrollment of each demographic subgroup. Trial strata were summarized using medians; Wilcoxon rank sum and one-sample signed rank tests were used to compare demographic representation between (i) VA and non-VA trials and (ii) VA trials and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) patient demographics, respectively. Results We identified 13,826 trials with available data, including 521 VA and 13,305 non-VA-sponsored trials. Median non-White enrollment was 68% greater in VA trials (P  < .001) than in non-VA trials, driven by greater enrollment of Black participants (23.5% vs. 10.4%; P  < .001). Black participant enrollment in VA trials exceeded representation among VHA beneficiaries (23.5% vs. 15.8%, P  < .001). Conclusions This study highlights the increased Black representation in VA-sponsored clinical trials, which is greater than expected after accounting for VHA clinical population demographics. Partnership with the VA may represent a meaningful avenue for increasing Black representation in clinical trials.
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