Assessing effective interventions to improve trial retention: do they contain behaviour change techniques?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical trials often struggle to retain the number of participants required to make valid and reliable assessments about the effectiveness of treatments. Several individual randomised comparisons of interventions to improve retention in trials have been shown to be effective. Many of these retention interventions target participants' behaviour (e.g. returning questionnaires or attending a follow-up visit). Although not designed as such, these interventions can be thought of as behaviour change interventions. By coding the constituent behaviour change components of effective retention interventions, the interventions' potential 'active ingredients' responsible for improvements in retention can be identified and maximised for future gains.

Methods

Studies reporting

SUBMITTER: Duncan EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7035706 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature