ArticlePrimary health care research & development2025
Challenges in recruitment and implementation of intervention studies including migrants.
Article in Primary health care research & development, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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.
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.
Who cites it
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundThe health of migrants with type 2 diabetes has become a public health concern. Minority populations, including migrants, are often considered 'hard-to-reach groups' in clinical research, as researchers face challenges in engaging, accessing and retaining participants. Previous reviews have focused on either recruitment or retention, highlighting the need to gather experiences to obtain a more comprehensive picture for improving participation in research.
aimTo share lessons learned about the challenges of recruiting and implementing an intervention study including migrants with type 2 diabetes.
methodsThis was a descriptive study, where researchers recorded experiences in reflective diaries and held discussions with the multi-professional teams involved. Data were analysed using Pawson's conceptual framework, evaluating four dimensions of context: individual, interpersonal, institutional and infrastructural.
findingsThe individual context concerns the time-consuming recruitment process since about half of the prospective participants did not want to participate, often due to illness, lack of time, the need to work, or having travelled abroad. In the interpersonal context, the main challenge was involving several professional groups; the greater the involvement, the less flexibility there was to meet expectations. The priorities in the institutional context were to provide care, with efficiency and productivity taking precedence over research. The infrastructural context was crucial due to a lack of staff available to support recruitment, the healthcare system's burden caused by the pandemic, and the impact of laws and regulations in healthcare.
conclusionsRecruiting and implementing clinical research studies among migrant populations is complex. Factors across all contextual levels play a role, but the main challenges are within the institutional and infrastructural contexts. Changes in infrastructure influence institutional priorities, particularly with an already strained staff situation in primary healthcare. While political and social changes are difficult to alter, fostering positive attitudes towards research at the individual and interpersonal levels is important.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.