title: A mixed studies literature review of family physicians' participation in research.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Family physicians' recruitment and adherence in research are challenging. This mixed studies literature review sought to identify the extent of family physicians' participation in primary health care research, as well as facilitators and inhibitors of their recruitment and subsequent protocol adherence in research projects.
  
  
  METHODS
  We searched Medline, Embase, PsycINFO, SCOPUS, Google Scholar, and BioMed Central Medical Research Methodology by using an explicit strategy. Sixty-two articles met predetermined selection criteria. Using a mixed method approach, we performed a content analysis of the results published in these articles to synthesize factors affecting family physicians' participation in research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Recruitment rates varied between 2% and 81%. The most frequent types of participation requested were completion of questionnaires (48%) and recruitment of patients (37%). We found that family physicians' personal/professional factors mainly affected recruitment, practice/patient-related issues mainly affected adherence, and study protocol characteristics facilitated both recruitment and adherence of family physicians in research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This review provides a synthesis of knowledge about factors mediating family physicians' roles in research. Our findings offer material for researchers to create checklists to help create and operationalize protocols that respect local clinical and research realities.
authors: Department of Family Medicine and St. Mary's Research Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
authors: Deniz
authors: D
authors: Sahin
authors: Mark J
authors: MJ
authors: Yaffe
authors: Tamara
authors: T
authors: Sussman
authors: Jane
authors: J
authors: McCusker
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D018579:Patient Selection; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011364:Professional Practice; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012107:Research Design; D012737:Sex Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires