Systematic Techniques to Enhance rEtention in Randomised controlled trials: the STEER study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Non-retention of participants seriously affects the credibility of clinical trial results and significantly reduces the potential of a trial to influence clinical practice. Non-retention can be defined as instances where participants leave the study prematurely. Examples include withdrawal of consent and loss to follow-up and thus outcome data cannot be obtained. The majority of existing interventions targeting retention fail to describe any theoretical basis for the observed improvement, or lack of improvement. Moreover, most of these interventions lack involvement of participants in their conception and/or design, raising questions about their relevance and acceptability. Many of the causes of non-retention involve people performing a behaviour (e.g. not returning a qu

SUBMITTER: Gillies K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5869766 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature