AUTHOR=Joshi Sama , Park Taeyoung , Brody Lilla , Cruz Kiana , Mukhi Priya , Reid M. Carrington , Herr Keela , Pillemer Karl , Riffin Catherine TITLE=Recruitment of family caregivers of persons with dementia: Lessons learned from a pilot randomized controlled trial JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pain Research VOLUME=4 YEAR=2023 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pain-research/articles/10.3389/fpain.2023.1125914 DOI=10.3389/fpain.2023.1125914 ISSN=2673-561X ABSTRACT=
Family caregivers play an essential role in supporting the health and well-being of older adults with dementia, a population projected to increase rapidly over the coming decades. Enrolling caregivers of people with dementia (PWD) in research studies is vital to generating the evidence necessary to support broader implementation of efficacious intervention programs in real-world care delivery, but a range of challenges impede recruitment and enrollment of sufficiently large and representative sample sizes. In this article, we characterize the challenges and lessons learned from recruiting caregivers of PWD to participate in a pilot randomized control trial. We utilize Bronfenbrenner's ecological model to categorize the challenges into three levels: