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- Title
Quantifying the recruitment challenges with couple-based interventions for cancer: applications to early-stage breast cancer.
- Authors
Fredman, Steffany J.; Baucom, Donald H.; Gremore, Tina M.; Castellani, Angela M.; Kallman, Theresa A.; Porter, Laura S.; Kirby, Jennifer S.; Claire Dees, E.; Klauber-Demore, Nancy; Peppercorn, Jeffrey; Carey, Lisa A.
- Abstract
Objective: Despite mounting evidence supporting the use of psychosocial interventions to promote adaptation to cancer, enrolling participants into these interventions is challenging. This is particularly salient for couple-based interventions, and newer, more targeted recruitment strategies to increase enrollment are needed. However, there have been few published empirical studies focused specifically on recruitment-related variables associated with enrollment into these types of interventions. To better understand how to encourage participation in couple-based psychosocial interventions for cancer, we examined facilitating and impeding factors to enrollment into a couple-based intervention for women with early-stage breast cancer. Method: In this sample of 99 women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer, patient demographic variables and method of approaching eligible patients were examined as predictors of enrollment into a randomized controlled trial comparing couple-based relationship enhancement with treatment as usual. Results: Results indicated that women were more likely to enroll if they were contacted at home or at a follow-up medical appointment rather than when first diagnosed at a busy multidisciplinary clinic; they were also more likely to enroll the closer they lived to the research facility. Conclusions: In addition to decreasing participant burden, timing and setting of recruitment efforts may have important implications for enhancing participation rates in couple-based intervention studies for cancer. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
BREAST cancer treatment; CANCER in women; INTERVENTION (Social services); PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; COUPLES; CANCER treatment
- Publication
Psycho-Oncology, 2009, Vol 18, Issue 6, p667
- ISSN
1057-9249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/pon.1477