N M Khilnani, S M Wasan, P J Pappas, Z Deol, J P Schoonover, S F Daugherty, R R Attaran, T V Cartee, T M Straight, J Fish, J W Granzow, R S Winokur, K R Desai, G Salazar, J Stoughton, K Gibson, A D Jones, J M Lohr, S Vayuvegula, M H Meissner
Core content for venous and Lymphatic Medicine: 2022 revision
Phlebology
health research culturally linguistically diverse cald health care consumers cited hidden hard reach paper evaluates approach used researchers attract retain hardtoreach cald research participants study investigating health communication barriers cald health care users health care professionals regional australia study taking place covid19 pandemic subsequent restrictions emerged thus recruitment retention methods adapted evaluation considered effectiveness recruitment retention used throughout precovid duringcovid periods evaluation sought determine effectiveness recruitment retention efforts researchers study targeted regional hardtoreach cald participants recruitment retention methods categorized following 5 phases recruitment preintervention data collection intervention postintervention data collection interviews compare methods used researchers recruitment retention rates divided precovid duringcovid periods thereafter indepth reflections methods employed within study made paper provides results relating participant recruitment retainment course 5 research phases occurred covid precovid recruitment phase 22 participants recruited participants 15 68 transitioned next phase completed initial data collection phase contrast 18 participants completed duringcovid recruitment phase 13 72 continuing next phase success rate intervention phase precovid period 93 1415 compared 846 1113 duringcovid period lastly 93 1314 participants completed postintervention data collection precovid period compared 91 1011 duringcovid period total 40 participants took part initial data collection phase 23 58 completing 5 research phases owing small sample size determined statistical significance groups pre duringcovid periods success program recruiting maintaining regional hardtoreach cald populations preserved pre duringcovid periods pandemic required researchers adjust study methods thereby inadvertently contributing recruitment retention success project maintenance participants period due flexibility offered researchers adaptive methods use cultural gatekeepers increased visibility cald researchers use digital platforms major findings evaluation 2fold first increased diversity research sample required high level flexibility researchers meaning projects may resource intensive second community organizations presented valuable opportunity connect potential hardtoreach research participants