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Journal Article
Recruitment to a physical activity intervention study in women at increased risk of breast cancer
2009
Overview
Background
Physical activity is being studied as a breast cancer prevention strategy. Women at risk of breast cancer report interest in lifestyle modification, but recruitment to randomized physical activity intervention studies is challenging.
Methods
We conducted an analysis of recruitment techniques used for a prospective, randomized pilot study of physical activity in women at risk of breast cancer. We evaluated differences in proportion of eligible patients, enrolled patients, and successful patients identified by each individual recruitment method. The Fisher-Freeman-Halton test (an extension of Fisher's exact test from 2 × 2 tables to general row by column tables) was used to compare the success of different recruitment strategies.
Results
We received 352 inquiries from women interested in participating, of whom 171 (54%) were eligible. Ninety-nine women completed a baseline activity evaluation, and 58 (34% of eligible; 16% of total inquiries) were randomized. Recruitment methods fell into three broad categories: media techniques, direct contact with potential participants, and contacts with health care providers. Recruitment strategies differed significantly in their ability to identify eligible women (p = 0.01), and women who subsequently enrolled in the study (p = 0.02).
Conclusion
Recruitment techniques had varying success. Our data illustrate the challenges in recruiting to behavior modification studies, and provide useful information for tailoring future recruitment efforts for lifestyle intervention trials.
Trial Registration No(s)
CDR0000393790, NCI-04-C-0276, NCI-NAVY-B05-001
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,BMC
Subject
/ Breast Neoplasms - pathology
/ Communications Media - statistics & numerical data
/ Exercise
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Medicine
/ Patient Acceptance of Health Care - statistics & numerical data
/ Patient Participation - statistics & numerical data
/ Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic - methods
/ Statistical Theory and Methods
