Exploring recruitment barriers and facilitators in early cancer detection trials: the use of pre-trial focus groups.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recruiting to randomized controlled trials is fraught with challenges; with less than one third recruiting to their original target. In preparation for a trial evaluating the effectiveness of a blood test to screen for lung cancer (the ECLS trial), we conducted a qualitative study to explore the potential barriers and facilitators that would impact recruitment.

Methods

Thirty two people recruited from community settings took part in four focus groups in Glasgow and Dundee (UK). Thematic analysis was used to code the data and develop themes.

Results

Three sub-themes were developed under the larger theme of recruitment strategies. The first of these themes, recruitment options, considered that participants largely felt that the invitation to participate lette

SUBMITTER: das Nair R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3974214 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature