title: What can we learn from pilot studies?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This paper discusses some of the potential lessons to be learned from pilot studies, using a recently completed pilot study of exercise in outpatients with schizophrenia as a case example.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pilot studies are a source of important research and clinical information in the areas of recruitment barriers, attendance at study intervention sessions, monitoring procedures, physical sensations from study interventions, and additional outcomes.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The author challenges psychiatric nurse clinicians to conduct and report the findings of pilot studies to enhance our knowledge and advance nursing science.
authors: University of Tennessee College of Nursing, Knoxville, TN, USA. lbeebe1@utk.edu
authors: Lora Humphrey
authors: LH
authors: Beebe
mesh_terms: D000553:Ambulatory Care; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000451:nursing / Q000628:therapy*; D016138:Walking