Patient and physician perspectives on engaging in palliative and healthcare trials: a qualitative descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Researchers are encountering increasing challenges in recruiting participants for palliative and healthcare research. This paper aims to understand challenges to and methods for engaging physicians and seriously ill patients and their caregivers in research studies.

Methods

Between October 2019 to July 2020, we conducted qualitative interviews with 25 patients, proxies, and caregivers participants who were eligible for a randomized controlled trial of home-based palliative care and 31 physicians from participating accountable care organizations. Using thematic analysis, we analyzed participants' responses to identify concepts and key ideas within the text. From these initial concepts, core themes around barriers to research and preferred research recruitment appro

SUBMITTER: Cardenas V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8515687 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature