Participant recruitment strategies in psychosocial oncology research: A comparison of in-person and telephone approaches.
Participant recruitment strategies in psychosocial oncology research: A comparison of in-person and telephone approaches.
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心理社会肿瘤学研究中的参与者招募策略：面对面和电话方法的比较。
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10.1016/j.jpsychores.2019.109817
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发表时间：
2019
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4.7
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Nelson,ChristianJ
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Tutino,Rebecca;Saracino,RebeccaM;Duhamel,Katherine;Diefenbach,MichaelA;Nelson,ChristianJ
参与者的招募和保留对于完成临床研究至关重要，也是确定研究有效性、可解释性和可推广性的重要因素。研究表明，只有不到三分之一的研究达到了招聘目标[1]。因此，临床研究人员经常努力实现心理社会研究的招募目标。由于患者和临床医生的优先级，在医疗环境中尤其如此。为了优化社会心理学研究的资源，应确定招募方法，以获得招募、保留和总体研究效果的最佳结果。没有研究探讨了初始方法类型的影响两种招募策略进行了比较：1）在一项心理治疗干预研究中，（即，男性和女性结直肠癌和肛门癌幸存者;表1，S1）和2）针对同一人群的两项单独的基于队列的纵向研究之间（即，患有前列腺癌的成年男性;表1，S2和S3）。所有研究的样本都包括类似的敏感项目。采用了两种招募策略：1）亲自招募：在诊所接触患者;研究助理（RA）解释研究并同意感兴趣的患者; 2）电话招募：向患者发送主要研究者和/或临床医生介绍研究的信函;然后RA联系患者
Participant recruitment and retention are critical for the completion of clinical research and are an important element of determining a study's validity, interpretability, and generalizability. Research suggests that less than one-third of studies meet recruitment goals [1]. Thus, clinical researchers often struggle to achieve recruitment goals for psychosocial research. This may be especially true in the medical setting due to patient and clinician priorities. To optimize resources in psychosocial research, recruitment approaches resulting in the best outcomes for recruitment, retention, and overall study efficacy should be determined. No research has examined the effect of initial approach type (ie, in-person or telephone) on both recruitment and retention rates.Two recruitment strategies were compared: 1) Within one psychotherapy intervention study (ie, male and female colorectal and anal cancer survivors; Table 1, S1) and 2) Between two separate longitudinal questionnaire-based studies targeting the same population (ie, adult men with prostate cancer; Table 1, S2 & S3). Questionnaires across studies included similarly sensitive items. Two recruitment strategies were used: 1) In-person recruitment: patients were approached in clinics; a research assistant (RA) explained the study and consented interested patients; 2) Telephone recruitment: patients were sent a letter from the principal investigator and/or clinician introducing the study; a RA then contacted the patient