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Research challenges to recruitment and retention in a study of homebound older adults — lessons learned from the Nutritional and Dental Screening Program
Author(s)	Christine S Ritchie, Christopher S Dennis
Journal title	Care Management Journals, vol 1, no 1, Winter 1999
Pages	pp 55-61
Keywords	Housebound ; Participation ; Nutrition ; Dental problems ; Screening ; Social surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	Practical, not theoretical, reasons are given as to why it is difficult to recruit housebound older people to participate in research studies. Complicated procedures for participants to follow, cross-cultural communication, fear of the medical establishment, convoluted consent forms, making contact on the telephone, finding the participants' homes, and a host of other problems combine to create barriers to running successful studies. The authors hope in identifying these difficulties, that light will also be shed on designing studies to minimise their impact. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-990826300 A
Classmark	C6: TMB: CF: BLA: 3V: 3F: 7T
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