Recruitment of Participants. After obtaining permission from the school principal to conduct the research on-site and receiving approval from the Concordia University Irvine Institutional Review Board (IRB), this researcher began to recruit participants. The recruitment method followed recommendations made by Ritchie, Lewis, and Xxxx (2003) on the design and selection of participant samples for qualitative research. Hence, two groups were recruited, (1) a group of Latino parents; and (2) a group of school counselors who worked in the District. The criteria for selecting parents were
Recruitment of Participants. When recruiting participants, it was important to mitigate the influence I had as a member of staff and to ensure that students could volunteer to participate without undue influence. In order to do this, I introduced the project at a sixth-form assembly using a template from my university, a screenshot of my 11 Ofsted. (2010). Details withheld for confidentiality. profile page on the university website (which contains details about the study) and highlighted my university email address, in order to distinguish my interests as a researcher and my role as a member of school staff. The rationale of the assembly was to invite students to complete an expression of interest form that contained basic information about the study, the kinds of questions that students would be asked, and included my university email address. Students were asked to deposit completed forms, with their names on, in a post-box outside the sixth-form office at any time over the next week. The following week, I invited all students who had expressed interest to attend a follow-up meeting where I repeated the introduction to the study, its aims and purpose, gave students a detailed information sheet about the study, and offered students an opportunity to ask questions. At this point, I was careful to highlight to students that their participation was voluntarily, they could withdraw at any point in the study without giving a reason, and that any information they shared would be treated confidentially (subject to the school’s child protection policy). Twenty students volunteered to participate in the study and interviews were scheduled with them over the following weeks.
Recruitment of Participants. Study participants for the VTE group were identified from patients referred to the outpatient DVT service or to the anticoagulation service upon hospital discharge. The identified patients were selected and only those meeting the inclusion criteria were contacted. Adult patients of 18 years and older were eligible to participate in the study if they met the following inclusion criteria: willing and likely to comply with the study; normal baseline coagulation; creatinine clearance of at least 30 ml/min, using the Xxxxxxxxx-Xxxxx method of calculation; no significant liver dysfunction; no documented allergy to rivaroxaban; and not taking certain other medications, namely clarithromycin, telithromycin, HIV protease inhibitors, ketaconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole and posaconazole. The eligible patients were taking rivaroxaban either for DVT treatment and secondary prevention, or for VTE primary prophylaxis post elective hip or knee replacement surgery. Eligible patients were phoned and asked to participate, explaining the aims, methods and background to the study. Those who were willing to participate were explained the research study and provided with the patient information leaflet (PIL) to read. (Appendix 1) Study participants for the orthopaedic group were identified soon after their operation on the xxxx and were given the patient information leaflet on the study on day 2-3 following their operation. At least 12h following this, usually on the subsequent hospital visit, or the following day for orthopaedic patients, the PIL was fully explained and if the patient agreed to participate in the study, they were recruited and if possible, a date was arranged for them to return for blood tests. If it was not possible to arrange a date at that time, the patient was telephoned at home a few days later to arrange a visit. On the day of the patient’s visit, following recruitment, full informed written consent was obtained. XXX was provided and the study fully explained, in clinic or on the xxxx pre-operatively Patients on prophylaxis post total hip or total knee replacement, were selected from the orthopaedic pre-assessment clinic notes Patients being treated for VTE were selected from the thrombosis / DVT out-patient clinic notes Patients taking Rivaroxaban who were eligible for the study were identified chronologically At least 24h later, the patient was phoned or visited on the orthopaedic xxxx, to discuss any questions regarding PIL and arranged a convenie...
Recruitment of Participants. Initial Contact - Through LWW: LWW maintains a relationship with the churches in each town where a site has been installed. This relationship is either direct, through visits that LWW representatives make annually to many of the sites, or indirect, through a regional coordinator living near Campeche or through the Initiating US Partner. LWW was therefore able to facilitate initial contact with the sites. They did this by communicating the details of the project in several ways. Several months before fieldwork began, they communicated information about the project to people who had been or were Initiating Partners for sites in the Yucatán so that these people could communicate to the sites with which they were in contact. Participants in LWW’s Clean Water U were also informed of the study throughout the several months before the project began. Additionally, LWW informed the regional coordinator living near Campeche of the schedule as soon as it became available and requested that he disseminate the schedule and information about the study to potential participants. Similarly, LWW representatives that were visiting the Yucatán were asked to inform sites they visited in the Yucatán of the upcoming visits.
