A qualitative exploration of challenges recruiting older adults for Being Your Best, a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty: lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Melbourne, Australia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Researchers face numerous challenges when recruiting participants for health and social care research. This study reports on the challenges faced recruiting older adults for Being Your Best, a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty, and highlights lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Design

A qualitative study design was used. Referrer interviews were conducted to explore the recruitment challenges faced by the frontline workers. An audit of the research participant (aged ≥65) database was also undertaken to evaluate the reasons for refusal to participate and withdrawal from the study.

Setting

Hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a home care provider in Melbourne, Australia.

Participants

Frontline workers an

SUBMITTER: Saleem A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11328630 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature