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Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa
OBJECTIVE: Recruitment and retention present major challenges to longitudinal research in maternal and child health, yet there are few insights into optimal strategies that can be employed in low-resource settings. Following prior participation in a longitudinal study following women living with HIV...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31349853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4509-4 |
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author | Mogoba, Phepo Gomba, Yolanda Brittain, Kirsty Phillips, Tamsin K. Zerbe, Allison Myer, Landon Abrams, Elaine J. |
author_facet | Mogoba, Phepo Gomba, Yolanda Brittain, Kirsty Phillips, Tamsin K. Zerbe, Allison Myer, Landon Abrams, Elaine J. |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Recruitment and retention present major challenges to longitudinal research in maternal and child health, yet there are few insights into optimal strategies that can be employed in low-resource settings. Following prior participation in a longitudinal study following women living with HIV through pregnancy and breastfeeding in Cape Town, women were re-contacted at least 18 months after the last study contact and were invited to attend an additional follow-up visit. We describe lessons learnt and offer recommendations for a multiphase recruitment approach. RESULTS: Using telephone calls, home visits, clinic tracing and Facebook/WhatsApp messages, we located 387 of the 463 eligible women and successfully enrolled 353 (91% of those contacted). Phone calls were the most successful strategy, yielding 67% of enrolments. Over half of the women had changed their contact information since participation in the previous study. We recommend that researchers collect multiple contact details and use several recruitment strategies in parallel from the start of a study. Participants in longitudinal studies may require frequent contact to update contact information, particularly in settings where mobility is common. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4509-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-66609342019-08-01 Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa Mogoba, Phepo Gomba, Yolanda Brittain, Kirsty Phillips, Tamsin K. Zerbe, Allison Myer, Landon Abrams, Elaine J. BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Recruitment and retention present major challenges to longitudinal research in maternal and child health, yet there are few insights into optimal strategies that can be employed in low-resource settings. Following prior participation in a longitudinal study following women living with HIV through pregnancy and breastfeeding in Cape Town, women were re-contacted at least 18 months after the last study contact and were invited to attend an additional follow-up visit. We describe lessons learnt and offer recommendations for a multiphase recruitment approach. RESULTS: Using telephone calls, home visits, clinic tracing and Facebook/WhatsApp messages, we located 387 of the 463 eligible women and successfully enrolled 353 (91% of those contacted). Phone calls were the most successful strategy, yielding 67% of enrolments. Over half of the women had changed their contact information since participation in the previous study. We recommend that researchers collect multiple contact details and use several recruitment strategies in parallel from the start of a study. Participants in longitudinal studies may require frequent contact to update contact information, particularly in settings where mobility is common. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s13104-019-4509-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2019-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6660934/ /pubmed/31349853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4509-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Note Mogoba, Phepo Gomba, Yolanda Brittain, Kirsty Phillips, Tamsin K. Zerbe, Allison Myer, Landon Abrams, Elaine J. Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title | Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_full | Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_fullStr | Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_full_unstemmed | Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_short | Re-recruiting postpartum women living with HIV into a follow-up study in Cape Town, South Africa |
title_sort | re-recruiting postpartum women living with hiv into a follow-up study in cape town, south africa |
topic | Research Note |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6660934/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31349853 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-019-4509-4 |
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