Keys to Recruiting and Retaining Seriously Ill African Americans With Sickle Cell Disease in Longitudinal Studies: Respectful Engagement and Persistence.
CONCLUSION: Patients' struggles with illness, chronic pain, and their life situations resulted in many challenges to recruitment and completion of study visits. Important to overcoming challenges was gaining the trust of patients with SCD and a participant-centered approach. Early identification of potential problems allowed strategies to be instituted proactively, leading to success.
PMID: 31394904 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Suarez ML, Schlaeger JM, Angulo V, Shuey DA, Carrasco J, Roach KL, Ezenwa MO, Yao Y, Wang ZJ, Molokie RE, Wilkie DJ Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research
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