Guide on Selection of Optimal Motivational Themes for Use in a Clinical Trial Recruiting Black US Adults: Survey Study

Tamunotonye Harry   ^{1 *} , MS ;   Jingyi Cao   ² , MPH ;   Zaib Hussain   ³ , MBBS, MPH ;   Ruth-Alma N Turkson-Ocran   ² , MPH, APRN, PhD ;   Stephen P Juraschek   ² , MD, PhD ;   Timothy P Lahey   ⁴ , MD, MMSc ;   Timothy B Plante   ⁴ , MD, MHS ;   Yuanyuan Feng   ^{1 *} , PhD

¹ Department of Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States

² Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

³ Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States

*these authors contributed equally