Recruitment and Retention in Intimate Partner Violence Research

Dutton, Mary Ann; Holtzworth‐Munroe, Amy; Jouriles, Ernest N.; McDonald, Renée; Krishnan, Satya P.; McFarlane, Judith; Sullivan, Cris M.

doi:10.1037/e508902006-001

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“…The design and language used in isafe materials was influenced by women who participated in focus groups convened during the trial planning stage [14]. We also learned that, despite our being advised to collect numerous contacts to maximize retention in longitudinal studies [33], women in our focus groups resented being asked to identify more than one contact. Acknowledging inequities in Internet access, we also collaborated with Aotearoa People’s Network, a library collective that facilitates free Internet access across diverse New Zealand settings.…”

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“…Recruiting women who experience violence for research testing intervention effectiveness can be particularly challenging for ethical, safety, and scientific rigor reasons [33,34]. Women are often recruited through government services or community agencies, which requires attention to relationship building with the agency, ideally with some provision for reciprocity [33].…”

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“…Women are often recruited through government services or community agencies, which requires attention to relationship building with the agency, ideally with some provision for reciprocity [33]. Recruitment is generally advised by experts in the field to be done personally, in face-to-face, one-to-one encounters by trained, sensitive researchers who are skilled in managing unanticipated situations, and are ideally of the same culture as the women [33]. How this face-to-face recruitment process can be translated to the computer user interface in eHealth interventions has received little attention [35].…”

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Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Koziol‐McLain¹,

McLean²,

Rohan³

et al. 2016

J Med Internet Res

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BackgroundAutomated eHealth Web-based research trials offer people an accessible, confidential opportunity to engage in research that matters to them. eHealth trials may be particularly useful for sensitive issues when seeking health care may be accompanied by shame and mistrust. Yet little is known about people’s early engagement with eHealth trials, from recruitment to preintervention autoregistration processes. A recent randomized controlled trial that tested the effectiveness of an eHealth safety decision aid for New Zealand women in the general population who experienced intimate partner violence (isafe) provided the opportunity to examine recruitment and preintervention participant engagement with a fully automated Web-based registration process. The trial aimed to recruit 340 women within 24 months.ObjectiveThe objective of our study was to examine participant preintervention engagement and recruitment efficiency for the isafe trial, and to analyze dropout through the registration pathway, from recruitment to eligibility screening and consent, to completion of baseline measures.MethodsIn this case study, data collection sources included the trial recruitment log, Google Analytics reports, registration and program metadata, and costs. Analysis included a qualitative narrative of the recruitment experience and descriptive statistics of preintervention participant engagement and dropout rates. A Koyck model investigated the relationship between Web-based online marketing website advertisements (ads) and participant accrual.ResultsThe isafe trial was launched on September 17, 2012. Placement of ads in an online classified advertising platform increased the average number of recruited participants per month from 2 to 25. Over the 23-month recruitment period, the registration website recorded 4176 unique visitors. Among 1003 women meeting eligibility criteria, 51.55% (517) consented to participate; among the 501 women who enrolled (consented, validated, and randomized), 412 (82.2%) were accrued (completed baseline assessments). The majority (n=52, 58%) of the 89 women who dropped out between enrollment and accrual never logged in to the allocated isafe website. Of every 4 accrued women, 3 (314/412, 76.2%) identified the classified ad as their referral source, followed by friends and family (52/412, 12.6%). Women recruited through a friend or relative were more likely to self-identify as indigenous Māori and live in the highest-deprivation areas. Ads increased the accrual rate by a factor of 74 (95% CI 49–112).ConclusionsPrint advertisements, website links, and networking were costly and inefficient methods for recruiting participants to a Web-based eHealth trial. Researchers are advised to limit their recruitment efforts to Web-based online marketplace and classified advertising platforms, as in the isafe case, or to social media. Online classified advertising in “Jobs–Other–volunteers” successfully recruited a diverse sample of women experiencing intimate partner violence. Preintervention recruitment data provi...

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Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Koziol‐McLain¹,

McLean²,

Rohan³

et al. 2016

J Med Internet Res

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“…Female relatives were most often provided as contacts by participants, and at least based on interviewers' experiences, proved to be the more productive contacts. Some publications suggest getting more than one contact to increase the follow-up success rate (Dutton et al, 2003). However, oftentimes it was difficult to get even one additional contact for women in this study.…”

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Combining Ethical Considerations With Recruitment and Follow-Up Strategies for Partner Violence Victimization Research

Logan

Walker

Shannon

et al. 2008

Violence Against Women

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In general, the literature on research ethics and the literature on recruitment and retention of research participants tend to be separated by different purposes and principles. This article uses multiple methods to compile information about research ethics with vulnerable participants as well as with recruitment and follow-up strategies, including (a) literature reviews, (b) key informant interviews, (c) focus group interviews, (d) a pilot study to test ideas for study implementation, and (e) documentation of recruitment and follow-up efforts for a longitudinal study of 757 women with partner violence victimization experiences. This article shows how considering research ethics may actually enhance recruitment and follow-up strategies with women experiencing partner violence victimization.

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“…or (b) a community-based common factors supportive group intervention, ''You belong.'' Participant preference for location, day, and time were taken into account to facilitate participation in the intervention and the study for generally hard to reach and enroll participants (Dutton et al, 2003). Participants were recruited from families that were referred to specialized IPV child and family services that provided the IPV-focused intervention.…”

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Mediators and Treatment Factors in Intervention for Children Exposed to Interparental Violence

Overbeek

Schipper

Willemen

et al. 2015

Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

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Changes in children's emotion differentiation, coping skills, parenting stress, parental psychopathology, and parent-child interaction were explored as mediators of treatment factors in two selective preventive group interventions for children exposed to interparental violence (IPV) and their parents. One hundred thirty-four IPV-exposed children (ages 6-12 years, 52% boys) and their parents were randomized to an IPV-focused or common factors community-based group intervention and completed baseline, posttest, and follow-up assessments for posttraumatic stress (PTS). A multilevel model tested mediators that included children's ability to differentiate emotions and coping skills, parenting stress, parental psychopathology, and parent-child interactions. In both conditions, exposure to nonspecific factors, specific factors unrelated to IPV and trauma-specific intervention factors was coded from videotaped child and parent sessions. Improved parental mental health mediated the link between greater exposure to nonspecific treatment factors and decreases in PTS symptoms. In addition, an increase in emotion differentiation and a decrease in parenting stress were associated with a decrease in PTS symptoms. Greater exposure to trauma-specific factors in child sessions was associated with a small decrease in emotion differentiation, an increase in coping skills, and a decrease in PTS symptoms over time. Greater exposure to nonspecific treatment factors in child and parent sessions was associated with more positive parent-child interaction. Parental mental health appears to be an important mechanism of change that can be promoted through exposure to nonspecific factors in parent intervention. For children, the effect of greater exposure to trauma-specific factors in intervention is less clear and may not have clear benefits.

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Recruitment and Retention in Intimate Partner Violence Research

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Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Participant Recruitment and Engagement in Automated eHealth Trial Registration: Challenges and Opportunities for Recruiting Women Who Experience Violence

Combining Ethical Considerations With Recruitment and Follow-Up Strategies for Partner Violence Victimization Research

Mediators and Treatment Factors in Intervention for Children Exposed to Interparental Violence

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