dc.contributor.author | Sygna, Karin | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Johansen, Safora | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Ruland, Cornelia | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-02-24T09:48:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-02-24T09:48:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Sygna, K., Johansen, S. & Ruland, C. (2015). Recruitment challenges in clinical research including cancer patients and their caregivers. A randomized controlled trial study and lessons learned. Trials, 16(428). doi: 10.1186/s13063-015-0948-y | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1745-6215 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | FRIDAID 1265357 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10642/3067 | |
dc.description.abstract | Background: To test seven different strategies for recruitment in a randomized controlled trial, to report documented
response data from each strategy, and to discuss recruitment challenges.
Methods: We used 5 opt-in (potential participants have to do something active to contact or be contacted by the
researcher) and 2 opt-out (potential participants have the option to decline being contacted about a study) recruitment
strategies from February 2013 until July 2014 to contact 1562 cancer patient candidates for participation in a randomized
controlled trial. For each of these cancer patients a caregiver was also invited to take part in the study.
Results: Of the 1562 candidates, 22.6 % were ineligible on initial contact, 56.7 % declined to participate on initial
contact, and 8.9 % agreed orally to participate but did not complete the enrollment. The 2 opt-out strategies, on-site
recruitment and routine care letters recruitment, yielded the highest number of recruited participants with 79 dyads
and 58 dyads respectively, constituting 42.7 % and 31.4 % of the total number of enrolled candidates. The 5 opt-in
recruitment approaches yielded 49 dyads for the study. Almost half of these dyads were recruited using the approach
termed “relying on providers at the hospital.”
Conclusions: In this study, opt-out recruitment strategies appeared to be the most effective | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | BioMed Central | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Trials;16(428) | en_US |
dc.subject | Recruitment | en_US |
dc.subject | Recruitment challenges | en_US |
dc.subject | Cancer patients | en_US |
dc.subject | Caregivers | en_US |
dc.subject | Clinical research | en_US |
dc.subject | Intervention study | en_US |
dc.title | Recruitment challenges in clinical research including cancer patients and their caregivers. A randomized controlled trial study and lessons learned | en_US |
dc.type | Journal article | en_US |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en_US |
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dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-0948-y | |