Perceived barriers and facilitators of staff recruiting participants to a randomised controlled trial of a community rehabilitation intervention following hip fracture.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) often struggle with recruitment and many need extensions which leads to delayed implementation of effective interventions. Recruitment to complex intervention trials have similar difficulties. Alongside this, the COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact upon trial recruitment. Research has shown that many other recruitment issues can be anticipated, for example overestimating target population prevalence; however, a range of factors may play a role. The aim of this study is to investigate facilitators and barriers to recruitment from the perspective of the recruiter.

Methods

Fracture in the Elderly Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation - phase III (FEMuR III) was a RCT of a complex intervention post-surgery for hip fracture in patients o

SUBMITTER: Harvey K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11653886 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature