Beattie Elizabeth, Fielding Elaine, O'Reilly Maria, Brooks Deborah, MacAndrew Margaret, McCrow Judy
Res Gerontol Nurs. 2018 May 1;11(3):119-128. doi: 10.3928/19404921-20180308-01. Epub 2018 Apr 11.
Many health and social care research studies report difficulties recruiting sufficient numbers of participants, adding to time and money expenditures and potentially jeopardizing the generalizability of findings. The current article reports the effectiveness and resource requirements of recruitment strategies used in nine dementia-related studies conducted in Australia. Articles, notices, or advertisements in targeted specialist newsletters were the most cost-effective method of recruitment. The use of service providers to aid recruitment yielded mixed results, but was lengthy in terms of research time. Online and social media were low cost but not reliably effective in terms of recruitment potential. Despite using multiple strategies to maximize recruitment, significant challenges were encountered achieving the required sample sizes; in most cases these challenges resulted in delays in the recruitment phase. Implications for researchers in the fields of dementia and general social/health research are discussed. [Res Gerontol Nurs. 2018; 11(3):119-128.].
许多健康与社会护理研究报告称，招募足够数量的参与者存在困难，这增加了时间和金钱成本，并可能危及研究结果的普遍性。本文报道了在澳大利亚进行的九项痴呆症相关研究中所采用的招募策略的有效性和资源需求。在目标专业时事通讯上刊登文章、通知或广告是最具成本效益的招募方法。利用服务提供商协助招募的效果参差不齐，但从研究时间来看耗时较长。在线和社交媒体成本较低，但在招募潜力方面效果并不稳定。尽管采用了多种策略以最大限度地扩大招募规模，但在达到所需样本量方面仍遇到了重大挑战；在大多数情况下，这些挑战导致招募阶段出现延迟。文中还讨论了对痴呆症领域以及一般社会/健康研究领域的研究人员的启示。[《老年护理研究》。2018年；11(3):119 - 128。]
