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Recruitment issues in healthcare research
— the situation in home care | | Author(s) | Karen-Lee Miller, Patricia McKeever, Peter C Coyte |
| Journal title | Health & Social Care in the Community, vol 11, no 2, March 2003 |
| Pages | pp 111-123 |
| Keywords | Domiciliary services ; Therapeutic services [domiciliary] ; Consumer ; Participation ; Qualitative Studies ; Canada. |
| Annotation | A global shift in the setting of healthcare from hospitals and long-term care institutions to homes and communities has been accompanied by a growth of interest in the home as a site of healthcare research. Home care researchers have identified the recruitment of research subjects as a significant concern, which is explored in this Canadian descriptive study. Qualitative semi-structured interviews with 90 home care researchers point to the following factors affecting recruitment in home care studies: non-dedicated recruiters; the current context of healthcare restructuring; and gatekeeper and participant feelings about the home as a setting for care and research. Reasons for refusal to participate may be more complex in home care research, given the meanings care recipients attributed to their "homes". Home care researchers may also face unique ethical and/or moral dilemmas. This paper recommends the routine reporting of recruitment problems, increased inclusion of minority subjects to ensure sample representativeness, and further studies of the subjective meaning of "home" as it is associated with healthcare treatment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030319204 A |
| Classmark | N: N3: WY: TMB: 3DP: 7S |
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