biostudies-literatureUnknown14(5)Saleem A<h4>Objectives</h4>Researchers face numerous challenges when recruiting participants for health and social care research. This study reports on the challenges faced recruiting older adults for <i>Being Your Best</i>, a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty, and highlights lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.<h4>Design</h4>A qualitative study design was used. Referrer interviews were conducted to explore the recruitment challenges faced by the frontline workers. An audit of the research participant (aged ≥65) database was also undertaken to evaluate the reasons for refusal to participate and withdrawal from the study.<h4>Setting</h4>Hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a home care provider in Melbourne, Australia.<h4>Participants</h4>Frontline workers anBMJ opene082618https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11328630biostudies-literatureA qualitative exploration of challenges recruiting older adults for <i>Being Your Best,</i> a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty: lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Melbourne, Australia.PMC11328630Meyer CBoyd LO'Keefe FSutherland FRose MSaleem ASmit VMills ALowthian JAAppannah AHutchinson AMfalseA qualitative exploration of challenges recruiting older adults for <i>Being Your Best,</i> a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty: lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Melbourne, Australia.<h4>Objectives</h4>Researchers face numerous challenges when recruiting participants for health and social care research. This study reports on the challenges faced recruiting older adults for <i>Being Your Best</i>, a co-designed holistic intervention to manage and reduce frailty, and highlights lessons learnt amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.<h4>Design</h4>A qualitative study design was used. Referrer interviews were conducted to explore the recruitment challenges faced by the frontline workers. An audit of the research participant (aged ≥65) database was also undertaken to evaluate the reasons for refusal to participate and withdrawal from the study.<h4>Setting</h4>Hospital emergency departments (EDs) and a home care provider in Melbourne, Australia.<h4>Participants</h4>Frontline workers an2024-01-01T00:00:00Z2024 May2025-04-05T10:10:14.55Z2024-10-18T19:45:14.172ZS-EPMC113286303880325510.1136/bmjopen-2023-082618