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| Recruiting older participants to a randomised trial of a community-based fall prevention program | | Author(s) | Lindy Clemson, Kirsty Taylor, Hal Kendig |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 26, no 1, March 2007 |
| Publisher | Blackwell Publishing, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 35-39 |
| Source | http://www.cota.org.au / http://www.blackwellpublishingasia.com |
| Keywords | Falls ; Preventative medicine ; Living in the community ; Participation ; Clinical surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | Promotional materials, health professional referrals, media, community presentations, mail-outs, and friends or relatives were used to recruit 110 community-residing people aged 70+ and at risk of falling to a randomised trial of a fall prevention programme. Mail and telephone recruitment strategies were able to be compared to actual recruitment yields, with costs reported for each. Mail-outs by organisations had response rates between 3.1% and 7.7%, with recruitment yields between 1.8% and 4.4%. Local media editorials were low cost and useful. Gender and physical status of participants varied according to the recruitment method, with multi-sources producing a reasonably representative sample. Databases and mail-outs using personalised letters were the most effective recruitment strategies for a community-based preventative programme. This study contributes to the expanding evidence of the kinds of recruitment that are more effective, considering the contexts of the study and the intervention. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070501210 A |
| Classmark | OLF: LK2: K4: TMB: 3G: 7YA |
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