Strategies to Reduce Barriers to Recruitment and Participation

Pribulick, Margaret; Willams, Ishan Canty; Fahs, Pamela Stewart

doi:10.14574/ojrnhc.v10i1.68

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“…Similarly, Park and Sha ( 4 ) found that the use of mass media (i.e., newspaper advertisements) was most efficient in reaching a large number of Asian immigrants in the United States. Use of multiple-phase processes, community meetings, and active stakeholder involvement have been proposed as key strategies for recruitment, particularly for community-based projects ( 5 , 6 ). Gorelick et al ( 7 ) reported the need of a community network for planning access to community groups.…”

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Recruitment and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Intervention Program: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong

Chu

Wan

Stewart

et al. 2018

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundRecruitment is central to any research project, and recruitment itself should be well documented and researched. We describe our recruitment efforts for a community-based research project—entitled the Learning Families Project—conducted in Hong Kong.MethodsIn collaboration with community stakeholders, residents from a public housing estate were recruited to participate in family programs aimed at enhancing family well-being. Various recruitment strategies were employed including the distribution of 19,200 leaflets, 688 posters, a banner, a kick-off ceremony, 10 promotion activities, 1,000 direct calls, word of mouth, 51 mobile counters, and 10 door-to-door visits. Drawing on field notes, research logs, short questionnaires, and focus group conducted with our community partners and residents, we describe and discuss our recruitment strategies, challenges, and lessons learned.ResultsOver a 9-month period, 980 participants were recruited and participated in our study, exceeding our recruitment goal (860 participants). Several observations were made including active recruitment strategies (i.e., door-to-door and mobile counter) being more effective than passive strategies (i.e., posters and leaflets); the importance of raising project awareness to facilitate recruitment; and the challenges encountered (i.e., burn-out and loss of motivation of staff, decreased community capacity in collaborating in research projects).ConclusionThe lessons learned include the importance of engaging Chinese communities, utilizing a positive outreach approach, and setting realistic expectations. Although similar recruitment strategies have been reported the West, a number of cultural differences should be taken into account when working with Chinese population. Further research is needed to examine the effectiveness of tailoring recruitment strategies to various populations.

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Recruitment and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Intervention Program: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong

Chu

Wan

Stewart

et al. 2018

Front. Public Health

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“…Some authors involve community members or site champions in the recruitment process to foster participant trust in the research and researcher. 12 …”

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“…Over the duration of multiple interactions with each participant, the lead researcher created a connection with each educator, which we believe fostered a strong sense of trust. 12 Moreover, the lead researcher completed all data collection at scheduled times convenient for each participant, eliminating the potential for variance from different data collectors. 16 Care was taken to address the potentially intimidating nature of the participant observation data collection approach and to emphasize the nonthreatening purpose of the study, which was to gather positive examples as to how nurse educators revealed their critical thinking.…”

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Process Matters

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Researchers who study nursing education encounter difficulty when trying to recruit and retain nurse educator participants. Researchers would benefit from knowing more about effective and ineffective sampling strategies and methods to increase the efficiency of the research process. This article outlines the struggles and successes encountered with a mixed methods study that examined nurse educators’ critical thinking. Specific examples are interwoven with current literature to uncover some important insights and future recommendations for researchers in nursing education.

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“…Barriers to recruitment and participation included 10% of those evaluated with higher than expected CVD burden, including diagnosis of diabetes, Framingham scores of > 20 points, or positive history of a cardiovascular event. Additional recruitment barriers specific to enrolling rural samples (and which have been previously described 17 ) included costs, transportation, and the need for multiple recruitment events over a wide geographic area.…”

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“…This left 74 women in each of group (N = 148). 17 Figure 1 shows the flow of participants through the study. A total of 117 women completed the study physiologic measures, with 110 of these completing the questionnaires.…”

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Promoting Heart Health in Rural Women

Fahs

Pribulick

Williams

et al. 2014

The Journal of Rural Health

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Purpose-To compare 2 strategies, Stage Matched Nursing and Community Intervention (SMN +CI) and Community Intervention (CI) alone in changing cardiovascular risk factors in up to 3 behavioral areas: diet, physical activity, and/or smoking among rural women. Methods-A 14-month, multisite randomized controlled trial of 117 rural women was conducted. Transtheoretical model was used in identification of stage of change and development of the SMN+CI nursing interventions. A Social-ecological model was used to address issues of rurality in the development of interventions. Findings-The SMN+CI group was superior on 4 outcomes. There were significant increases in 2 measures of dietary intake; improvement in dietary stage of change for fruits and vegetables; and reduced diastolic blood pressure (DBP) in the SMN+CI group. After log transformation DBP significance was lost. The CI group had a significant reduction in change in total cholesterol; however, significance was lost after control for the initiation of lipid lowering medications. There was a significant reduction in Framingham risk scores pre-to post-intervention, regardless of group. Conclusions-There continues to be a need to improve cardiovascular risk factors in rural women. There should be an exploration of whether intensified dose and fidelity of the intervention strategies of diet and physical activity are effective in improving anthropometric and laboratory values. Further investigation is warranted into factors influencing the pre-to post-reduction in Framingham risk scores.

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Strategies to Reduce Barriers to Recruitment and Participation

Cited by 23 publications

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Recruitment and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Intervention Program: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong

Recruitment and Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Intervention Program: The Learning Families Project in Hong Kong

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