Enhancing opportunistic recruitment and retention in primary care trials: lessons learned from a qualitative study embedded in the Cranberry for Urinary Tract Infection (CUTI) feasibility trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Opportunistic recruitment in primary care is challenging due to the inherent unpredictability of incident conditions, and workload and time pressures. Many clinical trials do not recruit to target, leading to equivocal answers to research questions. Learning from the experiences of patients and recruiters to trials of incident conditions has the potential to improve recruitment and retention to future trials, thereby enhancing the quality and impact of research findings. The aim of this research was to learn from the trial experiences of UTI patients and recruiters to the Cranberry for UTI (CUTI) trial, to help plan an adequately powered trial of similar design.

Methods

One-to-one semi-structured interviews were embedded within the CUTI feasibility trial, an open-

SUBMITTER: Gbinigie OA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9315325 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature