Patient engagement
and representation
Bringing Equity
and Co-Creation
to the Heart of the Trial
- This toolkit equips research, clinical, and organizational teams with practical, scalable instruments to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Ready-to-use templates, checklists, and communication guides help pinpoint and remove barriers faced by under-represented populations, ensuring fair access to studies, care, and opportunities. By embedding DEI best practices into day-to-day workflows and long-term strategy, the toolkit fosters environments where everyone feels respected, represented, and empowered. Although first created for the Path-for-Young program, its framework is readily adaptable as a model for other projects.
Toolkit for Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Offer guidance for co-design with stakeholder for facilitating co-participation. Optima-young benefits from a high enganged
Guidance for co-design with stakeholder for facilitating co-participation
Access to WeShare - Educational guidance to researchers on inclusive participation.
Offer educational guidance to researchers on inclusive participation. In Optima-young we will follow this guidance particularly we are implementing a pragmatic trial design regarding inclusion/exclusion criteria. We ensure understandability and acceptability of all patient-facing materials and we create Multilanguage trial materials. We ask investigators to complete an online training for implicit bias. Collection and real time monitoring of social determinants of health among trial participants.
Download Support Diversity in Research - Allow for remote eligibility pre-screening, by workingwing with KLINEO, a company specializing in improving patient inclusion in clinical trials.
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Capturing the Physical and Emotional Effects of Treatment
To fully understand the physical and psychosocial impact of treatment, we will collect a variety of clinical and patient-reported data. We will analyze key quality-of-life aspects for premenopausal breast cancer patients, including:
- Physical, social, emotional, and sexual well-being.
- Menopausal symptoms, bone health, fertility, and cognitive function.
- Communication needs and shared decision making process
- Returning to work, treatment adherence, and supportive care needs.
Supporting Patients Through
Endocrine Therapy
We will also evaluate the efficacy of the RESILIENCE digital companion, a self-management tool designed to empower and support patients during endocrine therapy by offering personalized education and supportive care resources to address key side effects and concerns related to endocrine therapy and improve quality of life.
