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ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2013

The challenges of enrolling older adults into intervention studies.

Nancy A Knechel

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Review in The Yale journal of biology and medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  7. Ecological Predictors of Older Adults' Participation and Retention in a Physical Activity Intervention.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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  10. Comparison of Recruitment Strategies for Engaging Older Minority Adults: Results From Take Heart.The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences · 2020
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  19. "Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Nancy A KnechelYale School of Nursing, New Haven, CT 06519, USA. Nancy.Knechel@yale.edu

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Adults aged 65 years or older have been routinely and systematically excluded from research. With the number of older adults at a record high and growing faster than any other age group, there must be an increased priority on meeting the enrollment challenges so intervention studies are relevant to this population. The challenge centers around the complexity and heterogeneity of older adults, leaving a gap between older adults who participate in studies and those who exist in the real world. Barriers to enrollment stem from both the researcher and participant side. Eight barriers from the research perspective and six from the participant perspective are identified and discussed. Solutions to these barriers can be approached from a three-tier framework. The lowest tier is direct solutions to problems, the middle involves support from funders and journals, and the top tier considers a comprehensive view of sampling and design decisions.

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Biomedical ResearchClinical Trials as TopicAgedHumansenrollmentmethodological challengesolder adultsrecruitment

Identifiers

PMID23482244
PMCPMC3584494

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