ResearchMatch is University of Delaware’s disease-neutral online volunteer registry and recruitment tool. Since 2010, ResearchMatch has been an effective recruitment tool that connects research teams with people who are interested in learning about research studies. ResearchMatch volunteers want to be contacted by researchers who are recruiting volunteers to take part in their research studies. ResearchMatch is funded in part by the National Center for the Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), an office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
NEW! ResearchMatch is now available in Spanish! If you have IRB approval, you can message Spanish-speaking volunteers with your IRB approved Spanish contact message. Use the new language filter on ResearchMatch indicating that your message is in Spanish.
How to Register with ResearchMatch:
1- Key study personnel recruiting participants should register themselves as a Researcher on https://www.researchmatch.org/researchers
2- Your study must be IRB-approved. To register your study, you must:
- Have IRB approval to use ResearchMatch as a recruitment method.
- Have an IRB approved ResearchMatch advertisement (also referred to as a contact message). Unlike an email, this recruitment message cannot include study team identifiers (like emails or phone numbers). Do not include embedded surveys or URLs. Maximum length is 2000 characters. (Please see “Example Contact Message” on the right-hand menu.)
- Optional: If you have approval and the ability to recruit monolingual Spanish speakers, you will need an IRB approved contact message in Spanish.
- Optional: Submit a REDCap Pre-screening eligibility survey for IRB approval.
3- Log in to www.researchmatch.org/researchers and register your study in ResearchMatch:
- If you are not the Principal Investigator (PI), then list yourself as the proxy. The PI will be emailed to approve you as their proxy.
- You upload your IRB Final Action Letter with the current expiration date, and an IRB approved recruitment message for ResearchMatch.
- The liaison will verify that you have IRB approval to use ResearchMatch and that you have an IRB approved ResearchMatch advertisement that does not contain identifiers.
Once you are approved you will have access to search for potential Volunteers and send them your Contact Message and REDCap Prescreening survey.
How it works:
ResearchMatch allows researchers to search for de-identified volunteers who have registered themselves as being interested in participating in research. The researcher creates a cohort of people that meet some of the key inclusion and exclusion criteria for their study by using filters on ResearchMatch, and then sends their IRB approved message to them via ResearchMatch.
Interested volunteers create a “profile” with their basic health information. This allows researchers to search for potential participants that meet certain criteria. The potential participant can be sent the IRB approved message about the study and can then choose whether to provide their contact information to the researcher. This is an excellent resource for researchers looking to identify potential participants outside of usual-care settings.
The researcher finds the contact information of those interested individuals on their ResearchMatch dashboard and can then contact them directly.
Monthly Researcher Training (via Zoom):
2nd Thursday of the month at 2PM (CST) – click here to register!
