Recruitment of low-income pregnant women into a dietary and dental care intervention: lessons from a feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are difficulties in carrying out research in low-income urban communities, but the methodological challenges and suggestions on how to deal with them are often undocumented. The aims of this study are to describe the challenges of recruiting and enrolling low-income pregnant women with periodontitis to a clinical trial on vitamin D/calcium milk fortification and periodontal therapy and also to describe the patient-, study protocol- and setting-related factors related to women's ineligibility and refusal to participate in the study.

Methods

A mixed-method sequential exploratory design was applied. Qualitative and quantitative data on recruitment to a 2 × 2 factorial feasibility clinical trial were used. Eighteen women attending the health centre in a low-inco

SUBMITTER: Rodrigues Amorim Adegboye A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7057473 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature