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Recruiting ‘hard to reach’ parents for health promotion research: experiences from a qualitative study

OBJECTIVE: Marginalised populations are less likely to take part in health research, and are sometimes considered ‘easy to ignore’. We aimed to describe our approach and results of recruiting parents who experience disadvantage, for focus groups exploring infant feeding on the island of Ireland. Upo...

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Autores principales: Tully, Louise, Spyreli, Eleni, Allen-Walker, Virginia, Matvienko-Sikar, Karen, McHugh, Sheena, Woodside, Jayne, McKinley, Michelle C., Kearney, Patricia M., Dean, Moira, Hayes, Catherine, Heary, Caroline, Kelly, Colette
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34289873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05653-1
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author Tully, Louise
Spyreli, Eleni
Allen-Walker, Virginia
Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
McHugh, Sheena
Woodside, Jayne
McKinley, Michelle C.
Kearney, Patricia M.
Dean, Moira
Hayes, Catherine
Heary, Caroline
Kelly, Colette
author_facet Tully, Louise
Spyreli, Eleni
Allen-Walker, Virginia
Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
McHugh, Sheena
Woodside, Jayne
McKinley, Michelle C.
Kearney, Patricia M.
Dean, Moira
Hayes, Catherine
Heary, Caroline
Kelly, Colette
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description OBJECTIVE: Marginalised populations are less likely to take part in health research, and are sometimes considered ‘easy to ignore’. We aimed to describe our approach and results of recruiting parents who experience disadvantage, for focus groups exploring infant feeding on the island of Ireland. Upon receiving ethical approval, we implemented recruitment strategies that included building rapport with community organisations through existing networks, targeting specific organisations with information about our aims, and utilising social media groups for parents. RESULTS: We approached 74 organisations of which 17 helped with recruitment. We recruited 86 parents/carers (one male) for 19 focus groups (15 urban/4 rural). Seventy two percent met at the eligibility criteria. Most participants were recruited through organisations (91%), and the remainder on social media (9%). Recruitment barriers included multiple steps, research fatigue, or uncertainty around expectations. Factors such as building rapport, simplifying the recruitment process and being flexible with procedures were facilitators. Despite comprehensive, multi-pronged approaches, the most marginalised parents may not have been reached. Further alternative recruitment strategies are required for recruiting fathers, rural populations, or those without the capacity or opportunity to engage with local services. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05653-1.
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spelling pubmed-82934952021-07-21 Recruiting ‘hard to reach’ parents for health promotion research: experiences from a qualitative study Tully, Louise Spyreli, Eleni Allen-Walker, Virginia Matvienko-Sikar, Karen McHugh, Sheena Woodside, Jayne McKinley, Michelle C. Kearney, Patricia M. Dean, Moira Hayes, Catherine Heary, Caroline Kelly, Colette BMC Res Notes Research Note OBJECTIVE: Marginalised populations are less likely to take part in health research, and are sometimes considered ‘easy to ignore’. We aimed to describe our approach and results of recruiting parents who experience disadvantage, for focus groups exploring infant feeding on the island of Ireland. Upon receiving ethical approval, we implemented recruitment strategies that included building rapport with community organisations through existing networks, targeting specific organisations with information about our aims, and utilising social media groups for parents. RESULTS: We approached 74 organisations of which 17 helped with recruitment. We recruited 86 parents/carers (one male) for 19 focus groups (15 urban/4 rural). Seventy two percent met at the eligibility criteria. Most participants were recruited through organisations (91%), and the remainder on social media (9%). Recruitment barriers included multiple steps, research fatigue, or uncertainty around expectations. Factors such as building rapport, simplifying the recruitment process and being flexible with procedures were facilitators. Despite comprehensive, multi-pronged approaches, the most marginalised parents may not have been reached. Further alternative recruitment strategies are required for recruiting fathers, rural populations, or those without the capacity or opportunity to engage with local services. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13104-021-05653-1. BioMed Central 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8293495/ /pubmed/34289873 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05653-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Tully, Louise
Spyreli, Eleni
Allen-Walker, Virginia
Matvienko-Sikar, Karen
McHugh, Sheena
Woodside, Jayne
McKinley, Michelle C.
Kearney, Patricia M.
Dean, Moira
Hayes, Catherine
Heary, Caroline
Kelly, Colette
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title_sort recruiting ‘hard to reach’ parents for health promotion research: experiences from a qualitative study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8293495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34289873
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-021-05653-1
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