Recruiting older adults to health research studies: A systematic review

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-151

  Auster, Josephine ^a   Janda, Monika ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adult; Aged; Middle aged; Patient selection; Review

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION;

AGED; AGING; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 69649088408     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2009.00362.x     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. Morton LM. Encouraging participation in medical research: What strategies work? Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2008 61 : 969 970.
2. Dillman DA. Mail and Internet Surveys: The Tailored Design Method, 2nd edn. New York, Chichester [England Wiley, 2000.
3. Mapstone J, Elbourne D, Roberts I. Strategies to improve recruitment to research studies. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 2 : MR000013.
4. Edwards P, Roberts I, Clarke M et al. Methods to increase response rates to postal questionnaires. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2007 2 : MR000008.
5. Clemson L, Taylor K, Kendig H. Recruiting older participants to a randomised trial of a community-based fall prevention program. Australasian Journal on Ageing 2007 26 : 35 39.
6. Ford ME, Havstad SL, Davis SD. A randomized trial of recruitment methods for older African American men in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial. Clinical Trials 2004 1 : 343 351.
7. Greaney ML, Lees FD, Nigg CR, Saunders SD, Clark PG. Recruiting and retaining older adults for health promotion research: The experience of the SENIOR Project. Journal of Nutrition for the Elderly 2006 25 : 3 22.
8. Gerace TA, George VA, Arango IG. Response rates to six recruitment mailing formats and two messages about a nutrition program for women 50-79 years old. Controlled Clinical Trials 1995 16 : 422 431.
9. Harris TJ, Carey IM, Victor CR, Adams R, Cook DG. Optimising recruitment into a study of physical activity in older people: A randomised controlled trial of different approaches. Age and Ageing 2008 37 : 659 665.
10. Iredell H, Shaw T, Howat P, James R, Granich J. Introductory postcards: Do they increase response rate in a telephone survey of older persons? Health Education Research 2004 19 : 159 164.
11. Napoles-Springer AM, Fongwa MN, Stewart AL, Gildengorin G, Perez-Stable EJ. The effectiveness of an advance notice letter on the recruitment of African Americans and Whites for a mailed patient satisfaction survey. Journal of Aging and Health 2004 16 (5 Suppl. 124S 36S.
12. Renfroe EG, Heywood G, Foreman L et al. The end-of-study patient survey: Methods influencing response rate in the AVID Trial. Controlled Clinical Trials 2002 23 : 521 533.
13. Shah S, Harris TJ, Rink E, DeWilde S, Victor CR, Cook DG. Do income questions and seeking consent to link medical records reduce survey response rates? A randomised controlled trial among older people. The British Journal of General Practice: The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 2001 51 (464 223 225.
14. Taylor KS, Counsell CE, Harris CE, Gordon JC, Fonseca SC, Lee AJ. In a randomized study of envelope and ink color, colored ink was found to increase the response rate to a postal questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2006 59 : 1326 1330.
15. Tworoger SS, Yasui Y, Ulrich CM et al. Mailing strategies and recruitment into an intervention trial of the exercise effect on breast cancer biomarkers. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention 2002 11 : 73 77.
16. Valanis B, Blank J, Glass A. Mailing strategies and costs of recruiting heavy smokers in CARET, a large chemoprevention trial. Controlled Clinical Trials 1998 19 : 25 38.
17. Wensing M, Schattenberg G. Initial nonresponders had an increased response rate after repeated questionnaire mailings. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2005 58 : 959 961.
18. White E, Carney PA, Kolar AS. Increasing response to mailed questionnaires by including a pencil/pen. American Journal of Epidemiology 2005 162 : 261 266.
19. MacEntee MI, Wyatt C, Kiyak HA et al. Response to direct and indirect recruitment for a randomised dental clinical trial in a multicultural population of elders. Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology 2002 30 : 377 381.
20. Garrett SK, Thomas AP, Cicuttini F, Silagy C, Taylor HR, McNeil JJ. Community-based recruitment strategies for a longitudinal interventional study: The VECAT experience. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 2000 53 : 541 548.