The Challenges of Enrolling Older Adults into Intervention Studies
Adults aged 65 years or older have been routinely and systematically excluded from research. With the number of older adults at a record high and growing faster than any other age group, there must be an increased priority on meeting the enrollment challenges so intervention studies are relevant to...
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pubmed-35844942013-03-12 The Challenges of Enrolling Older Adults into Intervention Studies Knechel, Nancy A. Focus: Nursing Adults aged 65 years or older have been routinely and systematically excluded from research. With the number of older adults at a record high and growing faster than any other age group, there must be an increased priority on meeting the enrollment challenges so intervention studies are relevant to this population. The challenge centers around the complexity and heterogeneity of older adults, leaving a gap between older adults who participate in studies and those who exist in the real world. Barriers to enrollment stem from both the researcher and participant side. Eight barriers from the research perspective and six from the participant perspective are identified and discussed. Solutions to these barriers can be approached from a three-tier framework. The lowest tier is direct solutions to problems, the middle involves support from funders and journals, and the top tier considers a comprehensive view of sampling and design decisions. YJBM 2013-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3584494/ /pubmed/23482244 Text en Copyright ©2013, Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License, which permits for noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any digital medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not altered in any way. |
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Adults aged 65 years or older have been routinely and systematically excluded
from research. With the number of older adults at a record high and growing
faster than any other age group, there must be an increased priority on meeting
the enrollment challenges so intervention studies are relevant to this
population. The challenge centers around the complexity and heterogeneity of
older adults, leaving a gap between older adults who participate in studies and
those who exist in the real world. Barriers to enrollment stem from both the
researcher and participant side. Eight barriers from the research perspective
and six from the participant perspective are identified and discussed. Solutions
to these barriers can be approached from a three-tier framework. The lowest tier
is direct solutions to problems, the middle involves support from funders and
journals, and the top tier considers a comprehensive view of sampling and design
decisions. |
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