Rockliffe, L;
Chorley, A;
Marlow, LAV;
Forster, AS;
(2018)
It’s hard to reach the "hard-to-reach": the challenges of recruiting people who do not access preventative healthcare services into interview studies.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being
, 13
(1)
, Article 1479582. 10.1080/17482631.2018.1479582.
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Abstract
In this article, we discuss the challenges faced in recruiting “hard-to-reach” groups for interview studies, specifically those who do not access preventative healthcare services. We do this by reflecting on the varying success of different recruitment methods we have used in two recent studies; one investigating ethnic disparities in human papillomavirus vaccination uptake and another exploring difference in cervical screening non-participation. Engaging new community groups to help with recruitment proved particularly difficult, as did recruiting online. Our most successful recruitment methods included recruiting through community groups with whom we had previously established relationships, recruiting through schools and re-contacting participants who previously completed a related survey. We conclude that successful recruitment is dependent on study awareness and engagement. We urge others to be transparent in reporting recruitment methods in order to benefit the qualitative research community and suggest that details are published as supplementary material alongside qualitative articles in future.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | It’s hard to reach the "hard-to-reach": the challenges of recruiting people who do not access preventative healthcare services into interview studies |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/17482631.2018.1479582 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/17482631.2018.1479582 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | Qualitative research, prevention, acceptability of healthcare, interview, recruitment activities, refusal to participate |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Behavioural Science and Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Epidemiology and Health > Epidemiology and Public Health |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10050628 |
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