Challenges and strategies for recruitment and retention of vulnerable research participants: promoting the benefits of participation.
The purpose of this article was to describe recruitment and retention of vulnerable hematopoietic cell transplant patients participating in a longitudinal intervention study. Utilizing Swanson's theory of caring model, nurse researchers facilitated patients' visualization of how study participation could enable them to share their experience and further clinical insights.
City of Hope, Division of Nursing Research and Education, Department of Population Sciences, Duarte, CA 91010, USA. rgemmill@coh.org
Robin
R
Gemmill
Anna Cathy
AC
Williams
Liz
L
Cooke
Marcia
M
Grant
D004645:Empathy; D018380:Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies / Q000379:methods*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D018579:Patient Selection; D035842:Research Subjects / Q000523:psychology*