Recruiting hard-to-reach pregnant women at high psychosocial risk: strategies and costs from a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recruiting participants to randomised controlled trials (RCTs) is often challenging, particularly when working with socially disadvantaged populations who are often termed 'hard-to-reach' in research. Here we report the recruitment strategies and costs for the Trial for Healthy Relationship Initiatives in the Very Early years (THRIVE), an RCT evaluating two group-based parenting interventions for pregnant women.

Methods

THRIVE aimed to recruit 500 pregnant women with additional health and social care needs in Scotland between 2014 and 2018. Three recruitment strategies were employed: (1) referrals from a health or social care practitioner or voluntary/community organisation (practitioner-led referral), (2) direct engagement with potential participants by research

SUBMITTER: MacLachlan A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8207826 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature