Dear Katharina,
 
I have not yet tried this myself, but some people recommend providing (free !) training for therapists in the area of the study - obviously it depends on the type of study, the design, etc. and this can get a bit complicated in terms of bias for e.g. cluster RCTs, etc., so needs thinking through, but a bit of free training can raise awareness and make people a bit more willing to tell potential participants about your study.
 
Good luck with the recruitment and the research !
 
Elizabeth
 
Dr. Elizabeth Edginton

I am usually able to reply to Lime Trees emails on Wednesdays, and to NSCAP emails on Thursdays.

 
From: list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org [list-manager@psychotherapyresearch.org] On Behalf Of Katharina Weitkamp MSH Hamburg [katharina.weitkamp@medicalschool-hamburg.de]
Sent: 29 October 2015 08:16
To: caftr@psychotherapyresearch.org
Subject: CaFTR participant recruitment via internet

Dear colleagues,

 

 

I am a PostDoc working at the Medical School Hamburg in Germany and I am also part of the steering committee of the CaFTR group. In my research I am currently interested in adolescents’ experience of therapy. At the moment I am dealing with difficulties in participant recruitment and was wondering if any one on this list could offer advise or experience?

 

We tried to carry out a qualitative study on adolescent therapy drop-outs and wanted to interview young people after they finished their psychotherapy prematurely. We wanted to recruit the young patients via the therapists and hoped that the therapists we approached for support would ask the young people who dropped out for their consent to be interviewed. Unfortunately, this way of recruitment did not lead anywhere. Now as a next step, we thought about bypassing the therapists as the “gate-keepers” and thought about disseminating the information about our study and a call for participation via the internet (for example mental-health web pages for adolescents and/or parents). Has any of you experience with this way of participant recruitment? Particularly for young people?

 

 

Thank you and best wishes,

Katharina

 

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Dr. Katharina Weitkamp

Methodische Leitung

Forschungsinnovation und Nachwuchsförderung

MSH Medical School Hamburg

Am Kaiserkai 1

20457 Hamburg

Tel.: 040-361 226 447

Katharina.weitkamp@medicalschool-hamburg.de

 


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