Barriers to recruitment of children with cerebral palsy in a trial of home-based training.

ABSTRACT: Many trials fail to include the targeted number of participants, causing scientific and ethical problems. The COAD trial of home-based training programs (HBTPs) for children with unilateral cerebral palsy (CP) encountered recruitment problems, even though the parent-delivered home-based approach complies with recent health-care developments in the Netherlands. The current project aimed to identify the barriers to recruitment in the COAD trial. This summative, multidimensional evaluation comprised informal conversational interviews in which stakeholders who had been involved reflected on the factors that impeded successful recruitment of participants into the COAD trial. Barriers to implementation and recruitment were clustered according to the constructs of the Consolidated Framework for I

SUBMITTER: Beckers LWME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6556814 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature