Develop a recruitment strategy for a study conducted within your area of practice to answer a question of interest. Consider the inclusion and exclusion criteria you would use and the recruitment strategies that would enable you to attract and retain appropriate participants

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

ANSWERS When developing your recruitment strategy, consider how you can optimise recruitment without infringing ethical principles. Ensure sufficient information is provided prior to recruitment to enable consent to be genuinely informed. Ensure that there is no coercion—consider whether any power imbalance exists between the participants and the research team members, in particular the person responsible for recruitment. Think about where and how you would advertise the study, including online and social media recruitment opportunities. Identify inclusion and exclusion criteria that would ensure you recruit participants of the appropriate age, experience, and educational background. Target your recruitment to the information sources used by this age group (e.g. social media, hard copy, noticeboards, emails, public meetings to publicise the study).