Barriers and strategies for recruiting study participants in clinical settings
Authors
Sullivan-Bolyai, SusanBova, Carol A.
Deatrick, Janet A.
Knafl, Kathy
Grey, Margaret
Leung, Katherine
Trudeau, Allison
UMass Chan Affiliations
Department of Medicine, Division of Preventive and Behavioral MedicineCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research
Graduate School of Nursing
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2007-06-01
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Recruiting participants for research studies is often a challenging task. Recruitment requires careful planning, collaboration, and flexibility on the part of researchers and health care providers at the recruitment sites. This article describes six major barriers to recruiting study participants as identified from a review of the literature and from the coauthors' research experiences. These barriers include challenges related to regulations of the Health Insurance Portabililty and Accountability Act (HIPAA), health care providers' work burden, providers' financial disincentives, competition, health care provider concerns regarding research, and provider protection of patients. Each barrier is described, and specific strategies are suggested based on the empirical literature. In some instances, the coauthors' experiences are also shared.Source
West J Nurs Res. 2007 Jun;29(4):486-500. Link to article on publisher's siteDOI
10.1177/0193945907299658Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/34425PubMed ID
17538128Related Resources
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10.1177/0193945907299658