Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on recruitment for the working women walking program

Daniel, Manju; Buchholz, Susan Weber; Schoeny, Michael; Halloway, Shannon; Kitsiou, Spyros; Johnsons, Tricia; Vispute, Sachin; Kapp, Monica; Wilbur, JoEllen

doi:10.1002/nur.22258

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“…Similar to many other researchers at the time, the team shifted to a remote recruitment technique. 22 After receiving IRB approval to obtain consent and onboard participants using a HIPAA-compliant Zoom teleconference service, only 1 family opted to participate. However, this child and parent pair never logged into the JASMIN application to create a profile.…”

Section: Recruitmentmentioning

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Recruitment Barriers of an mHealth Pediatric Asthma Pilot Study

Wyatt,

Li,

Fancher

et al. 2023

West J Nurs Res

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Successful participant recruitment for pediatric studies can be challenging and even result in study discontinuation. In conducting a 2-year pilot study for a pediatric mobile health (mHealth) asthma intervention, a group of researchers experienced multiple barriers and failures in all 4 areas of recruitment: generating initial contacts, screening, consenting, and enrollment and retention. The main failures that resulted in minimal participant enrollment were poor participation, communication issues, and difficulties related to recruiting in an emergency department during a pandemic. The following is a report on this study’s recruitment efforts, including preliminary and adapted strategies, the results of these strategies, and considerations for researchers who conduct studies with children. The research team concluded that frequent and clear communication, flexibility, and a willingness to alter initial recruitment plans are essential elements for recruitment success in pediatric studies.

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Section: Recruitmentmentioning

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Recruitment Barriers of an mHealth Pediatric Asthma Pilot Study

Wyatt,

Li,

Fancher

et al. 2023

West J Nurs Res

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“…This study offers important insights into the potential returns on participation when study teams invest resources in using email for recruitment. However, it remains to be seen whether the effect of email recruitment will be further diluted considering the COVID-19 pandemic [45][46][47][48] and amidst a digital landscape in excess of outlets vying for one's attention.…”

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Email-Based Recruitment Into the Health eHeart Study: Cohort Analysis of Invited Eligible Patients

Ng,

Olgin,

Marcus

et al. 2023

J Med Internet Res

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Background Web- or app-based digital health studies allow for more efficient collection of health data for research. However, remote recruitment into digital health studies can enroll nonrepresentative study samples, hindering the robustness and generalizability of findings. Through the comprehensive evaluation of an email-based campaign on recruitment into the Health eHeart Study, we aim to uncover key sociodemographic and clinical factors that contribute to enrollment. Objective This study sought to understand the factors related to participation, specifically regarding enrollment, in the Health eHeart Study as a result of a large-scale remote email recruitment campaign. Methods We conducted a cohort analysis on all invited University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) patients to identify sociodemographic and clinical predictors of enrollment into the Health eHeart Study. The primary outcome was enrollment, defined by account registration and consent into the Health eHeart Study. The email recruitment campaign was carried out from August 2015 to February 2016, with electronic health record data extracted between September 2019 and December 2019. Results The email recruitment campaign delivered at least 1 email invitation to 93.5% (193,606/206,983) of all invited patients and yielded a 3.6% (7012/193,606) registration rate among contacted patients and an 84.1% (5899/7012) consent rate among registered patients. Adjusted multivariate logistic regression models analyzed independent sociodemographic and clinical predictors of (1) registration among contacted participants and (2) consent among registered participants. Odds of registration were higher among patients who are older, women, non-Hispanic White, active patients with commercial insurance or Medicare, with a higher comorbidity burden, with congestive heart failure, and randomized to receive up to 2 recruitment emails. The odds of registration were lower among those with medical conditions such as dementia, chronic pulmonary disease, moderate or severe liver disease, paraplegia or hemiplegia, renal disease, or cancer. Odds of subsequent consent after initial registration were different, with an inverse trend of being lower among patients who are older and women. The odds of consent were also lower among those with peripheral vascular disease. However, the odds of consent remained higher among patients who were non-Hispanic White and those with commercial insurance. Conclusions This study provides important insights into the potential returns on participant enrollment when digital health study teams invest resources in using email for recruitment. The findings show that participant enrollment was driven more strongly by sociodemographic factors than clinical factors. Overall, email is an extremely efficient means of recruiting participants from a large list into the Health eHeart Study. Despite some improvements in representation, the formulation of truly diverse studies will require additional resources and strategies to overcome persistent participation barriers.

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Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on recruitment for the working women walking program

Daniel

Buchholz

Schoeny

et al. 2022

Research in Nursing & Health

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The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 affected many aspects of randomized controlled trials, including recruiting and screening participants. The purpose of this paper is to (a) describe adjustments to recruitment and screening due to COVID-19, (b) compare the proportional recruitment outcomes (not completed, ineligible, and eligible) at three screening stages (telephone, health assessment, and physical activity assessment) pre-and post-COVID-19 onset, and (c) compare baseline demographic characteristics pre-and post-COVID-19 onset in the Working Women Walking program. The design is a cross-sectional descriptive analysis of recruitment and screening data from a 52-week sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART). Participants were women 18-70 years employed at a large urban medical center. Recruitment strategies shifted from inperson and electronic to electronic only post-COVID-19 onset. In-person eligibility screening for health and physical activity assessments continued post-COVID-19 onset with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention precautions. Of those who expressed interest in the study pre-and post-COVID-19 onset (n = 485 & n = 269 respectively), 40% (n = 194) met all eligibility criteria pre-COVID-19 onset, and 45.7% (n = 123) post-COVID-19 onset. Although there were differences in the proportions of participants who completed or were eligible for some of the screening stages, the final eligibility rates did not differ significantly pre-COVID-19 versus post-COVID-19 onset. Examination of differences in participant demographics between pre-and post-COVID-19 onset revealed a significant decrease in the percentage of Black women recruited into the study from pre-to post-COVID-19 onset.Studies recruiting participants into physical activity studies should explore the impact of historical factors on recruitment.

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Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on recruitment for the working women walking program

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Recruitment Barriers of an mHealth Pediatric Asthma Pilot Study

Recruitment Barriers of an mHealth Pediatric Asthma Pilot Study

Email-Based Recruitment Into the Health eHeart Study: Cohort Analysis of Invited Eligible Patients

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