Challenges and Possible Solutions to Adapting to Virtual Recruitment: Lessons Learned from a Survey Study during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Challenges and Possible Solutions to Adapting to Virtual Recruitment: Lessons Learned from a Survey Study during the Covid-19 Pandemic.
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10.1002/eahr.500148
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2022-11
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The COVID-19 pandemic required rapid changes to research protocols, including immediate transitions to virtual recruitment and informed consent. This case study details the challenges our research team faced adapting an in-person, behavioral intervention and survey study to virtual recruitment. We reflect on the impact of these rapid changes on recruitment and retention, discuss protocol changes we made to address these challenges and participants’ needs, and propose recommendations for future work. Using computer technology to display professional return phone numbers, flexibility in contacting participants through various means, minimizing email communication due to added regulatory requirements, and partnering with the institutional review board to shorten and improve the consent document and process, were critical to study success. This case example can offer insight to other researchers as they navigate similar processes. Virtual recruitment is likely to continue; it is important to ensure it facilitates, rather than hinders, equitable and just recruitment practices.
