Recruitment of participants for dementia research: interprofessional perspectives from primary care-based memory clinics.

To understand clinician attitudes and the barriers that impede research recruitment from specialized primary care-based memory clinics. Clinicians completed a survey on attitudes and barriers to research recruitment from memory clinics. Comfort and willingness to recruit for research were low to moderate and were lower for drug trials than for observational and non-drug trials. Respondents believed that it is important to have a standardized recruitment process. Identified barriers provide some insights into the factors that contribute to discomfort and lack of willingness to recruit research participants. Findings can inform future efforts to develop a recruitment process that addresses identified barriers, while also providing an opportunity to increase participant recruitment in dementia research.