Bridget Young

What parents think about being approached about children’s trials, how this differs from what practitioners expect, and what this tells us about enhancing recruitment

Methods Qualitative study of recruitment within four randomised controlled trials at 11 research sites in the UK. We compared i) audio-recording of practitioner-family dialogue during trial recruitment discussions with ii) audiorecordings of interviews that we subsequently conducted with parents and practitioners. Analyses of transcribed audio-recordings were informed by the principles of the constant comparative method.