Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial - Incentive

ISRCTN	ISRCTN61305297
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN61305297
Secondary identifying numbers	HTA 02/35/02 - Incentive

Submission date: 22/10/2008
Registration date: 24/10/2008
Last edited: 21/09/2009

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Injury, Occupational Diseases, Poisoning

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English Summary

Not provided at time of registration

Study website

Contact information

Prof Sarah Lamb
Scientific

University of Warwick
Warwick Clinical Trials Unit
Room A1.04 Medical School Building
Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)24 7657 4658
Email	s.lamb@warwick.ac.uk

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Other
Scientific title
Study acronym	MINT
Study hypothesis	An incentive of a £5 gift voucher will increase the return rate of postal questionnaires in a large randomised controlled trial (RCT) evaluating conservative treatments for Whiplash Association Disorders (WAD). The main trial "Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial - MINT" is registered with ISRCTN33302125. Please note that, as of 03/09/2009, the anticipated start and end dates of this trial have been updated from 08/06/2006 and 15/05/2008 to 01/11/2004 and 31/03/2009, respectively.
Ethics approval(s)	The trial was approved by the Trent MREC on 28/04/2004. Each participating centre received approval from LREC.
Condition	Acute neck sprain (whiplash)
Intervention	Randomised 1:1 ratio to receive incentive or no incentive with follow-up questionnaire, either 4-month follow-up or, for those participants that have already passed the 4-month follow-up, 8-month follow-up. Schedule of chase-up by the study team: 1st telephone call: 1 week after questionnaire sent out 2nd telephone call: 2 weeks after questionnaire sent out If the questionnaire was not yet returned at this point, a second copy of questionnaire was sent. 3rd telephone call: 1 week after second questionnaire sent out 4th telephone call: 2 weeks after second questionnaire sent out
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Questionnaire return.
Secondary outcome measures	Number of questionnaires returned without chasing by the study team.
Overall study start date	01/11/2004
Overall study end date	31/03/2009

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	2160
Participant inclusion criteria	Participants in the Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial (MINT; registered with ISRCTN33302125) that have returned their baseline questionnaire.
Participant exclusion criteria	Does not match inclusion criteria
Recruitment start date	01/11/2004
Recruitment end date	31/03/2009

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

University of Warwick

Coventry
CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Department of Health (UK)
Government

Quarry House
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
United Kingdom

Website	http://www.dh.gov.uk
"ROR"	https://ror.org/03sbpja79

Funders

Funder type

Government

NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme - HTA (UK)

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Study outputs

Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	results	22/06/2009		Yes	No