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BMC Health Services Research
Views of healthcare professionals on recruiting to a psychosocial randomised controlled trial: a qualitative study
Trefor Aspden1  Marc Serfaty1  Megan Armstrong2 
[1] Division of Psychiatry, University College London, W1T 7NF, London, UK;Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, London, UK;
关键词: Qualitative;    RCT;    Randomised Controlled Trial;    Psychosocial;    Recruitment;    Psychooncology;   
DOI  :  10.1186/s12913-021-06817-2
来源: Springer
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BackgroundRandomised controlled trials, and in particular those of psychosocial interventions, often fail to recruit to target, resulting in underpowered trials with poor generalisability of findings. The objectives of this study were to explore the views of healthcare professionals on recruiting to psychosocial research studies, and to explore their views on factors that may hinder or facilitate recruitment.MethodsWe conducted 14 semi-structured interviews, with healthcare professionals who had been involved in recruitment into a randomised controlled trial of a talking therapy for depression in patients with advanced cancer. Interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis.ResultsFive primary themes were identified, comprised of 11 subthemes. Attitudes towards research were largely positive. Health care professionals identified lack of time and narrow screening criteria as barriers to recruitment, and also noted the tendency to withhold participants from research for reasons other than eligibility (e.g., gatekeeping). The engagement of the study team with the clinical recruitment site, and the frequent presence of a researcher in clinics, were noted as facilitating recruitment.ConclusionsHealthcare professionals involved in recruiting to trials of psychosocial interventions hold generally positive views of psychosocial research. However, they report that constraints including space and time limit their ability to recruit, and express anxieties about approaching patients for trial recruitment in the palliative phase of their illness. The findings from this study can inform how best to design trials, and in particular trials of psychosocial interventions, and train health care professionals for the study, to maximise recruitment.

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