ArticleThe Gerontologist2015
Recruitment of Older Adults: Success May Be in the Details.
Article in The Gerontologist, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03824106 (Frailty Rehabilitation), which is not on this map. Cited by 58 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Frailty Rehabilitation: A Community-based Intervention to Promote Healthy Aging
Who cites it
58 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Including older people in health and social care research: best practice recommendations based on the INCLUDE framework.Age and ageing · 2023Guideline
- Challenges of conducting research in long-term care facilities: a systematic review.BMC geriatrics · 2018Pooled it
- Success and cost-effectiveness of strategies to recruit older adults to a behavioral intervention research study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Trial
- The challenge of recruiting multimorbid older patients identified in a hospital database to a randomised controlled trial.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Trial
- The Tribulations of Trials: Lessons Learnt Recruiting 777 Older Adults Into REtirement in ACTion (REACT), a Trial of a Community, Group-Based Active Aging Intervention Targeting Mobility Disability.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Trial
- Comparison of Recruitment Strategies for Engaging Older Minority Adults: Results From Take Heart.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020Trial
- A Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial of Interventions to Improve Functional Recovery After Hospitalization in Older Adults: Feasibility and Adherence.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2018Trial
- Multifaceted Prospective Memory Intervention to Improve Medication Adherence.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2016Trial
- An intensely sympathetic awareness: experiential similarity and cultural norms as means for gaining older African Americans' trust of scientific research.Journal of aging studies · 2014Trial
- Perceptions of Caring Recruitment Among Older Adults: African Americans and Non-Latinx Whites.Nursing researchTrial
- 'It felt like surveillance, not support': understanding barriers to enrolling older adults in an energy-linked digital health study during pandemic recovery and the cost-of-living crisis.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Engaging Patient and Caregiver Partners in Codeveloping a Patient Educational Video for Improving Clostridioides difficile Infection Education: Participatory Co-Design Study.JMIR formative research · 2026Article
- Recruitment of older adults to clinical trials in the Emergency Department: A qualitative study with clinical trial stakeholders.BMC medical research methodology · 2026Article
- A cognitive screening program in community-based medical clinics to facilitate Latino participation in Alzheimer's disease research.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Caregiver recruitment and engagement: identifying best practices and strategies for including family caregivers of veterans in health services research.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Usability of the digit-tracking technique in a geriatric population of inpatients with and without neurocognitive disorders: The DIGICOG-start study.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2025Article
- Optimizing recruitment strategies for healthy older adults in prevention clinical trials: A scoping review.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2025Review
- The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative-4 (ADNI-4) Engagement Core: A culturally informed, community-engaged research (CI-CER) model to advance brain health equity.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2024Article
- Advancing Aging Research Through a Health Disparities Perspective.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2024Article
- Recruitment Strategies for a Technology-Based Fall Risk Assessment Research Study Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults During a Global Pandemic.Journal of gerontological nursing · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeDescribe recruitment strategies used in a randomized clinical trial of a behavioral prospective memory intervention to improve medication adherence for older adults taking antihypertensive medication.
resultsRecruitment strategies represent 4 themes: accessing an appropriate population, communication and trust-building, providing comfort and security, and expressing gratitude. Recruitment activities resulted in 276 participants with a mean age of 76.32 years, and study enrollment included 207 women, 69 men, and 54 persons representing ethnic minorities. Recruitment success was linked to cultivating relationships with community-based organizations, face-to-face contact with potential study participants, and providing service (e.g., blood pressure checks) as an access point to eligible participants. Seventy-two percent of potential participants who completed a follow-up call and met eligibility criteria were enrolled in the study. The attrition rate was 14.34%. IMPLICATIONS: The projected increase in the number of older adults intensifies the need to study interventions that improve health outcomes. The challenge is to recruit sufficient numbers of participants who are also representative of older adults to test these interventions. Failing to recruit a sufficient and representative sample can compromise statistical power and the generalizability of study findings.
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