The development and acceptability of an educational and training intervention for recruiters to neonatal trials: the TRAIN project.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suboptimal or slow recruitment affects 30-50% of trials. Education and training of trial recruiters has been identified as one strategy for potentially boosting recruitment to randomised controlled trials (hereafter referred to as trials). The Training tRial recruiters, An educational INtervention (TRAIN) project was established to develop and assess the acceptability of an education and training intervention for recruiters to neonatal trials. In this paper, we report the development and acceptability of TRAIN.

Methods

TRAIN involved three sequential phases, with each phase contributing information to the subsequent phase(s). These phases were 1) evidence synthesis (systematic review of the effectiveness of training interventions and a content analysis of the form

SUBMITTER: Smith V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10638723 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature