Table 2
Recruitment strategies used to identify potential participants, by site
| Site A | Site B | Site C | |
| Recruitment strategy | |||
| Within NHS site memory services | |||
| Direct referral by memory services clinicians |
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| Regular presence in memory services clinics by researchers |
|
| – |
| Attendance at psychosocial intervention groups by researchers |
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| ‘Pre’ screening of clinical records by a research nurse | – |
| – |
| Leaflets and posters displayed |
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|
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| Ad-hoc mail outs targeting potentially eligible participants choosing to attend follow-up appointments offered at local GP practices, instead of memory services at the hospital | – |
| – |
| Within other services provided by the NHS site | |||
| Potential participants identified by within multidisciplinary clinical meetings | – | – |
|
| Occupational therapists delivering the intervention identifying potential participants |
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|
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| Attendance at clinical team business meetings by researchers |
| – |
|
| Leaflets and posters displayed (other NHS Trust locations) | – |
|
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| Research team made contact with people who had participated in other studies previously and had agreed to be contacted about future studies |
| – |
|
| Involvement of other NHS providers | |||
| Information displayed in GP practices associated with memory services | – |
| – |
| Patient Identification Centre in another NHS Trust | – |
| – |
| Non -NHS | |||
| Attendance at community groups by research staff |
| – |
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| Study promoted by researchers at local events |
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| One mail out via non-statutory sector organisation / sending non-statutory sector organisation staff study information |
| – |
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| ‘Join Dementia Research’ 1(JDR) (https://www.joindementiaresearch.nihr.ac.uk): an online resource that enables people to register interest in participating in dementia research and thereby be ‘matched’ to relevant studies. Researchers then contact them directly. People who expressed interest living within the sites’ locality, were sent information when JDR became active at each site. |
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GP, general practitioner; NHS, National Health Service.