Retention strategies in longitudinal studies with emerging adults
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PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this report was to describe retention strategies that were useful and those that were not in a longitudinal study of emerging adults. BACKGROUND: A longitudinal study examining the transition to young adulthood among emerging adults with type 1 diabetes, which had success in retention, provided the context for describing retention strategies. RATIONALE: A challenge in longitudinally designed studies is retention of participants because the loss decreases power for statistical analysis. Given that emerging adulthood is a period of instability, retention is particularly challenging among this population. However, longitudinal studies are the best way to understand developmental changes, and it is also important to increase our knowledge of health outcomes during emerging adulthood. DESCRIPTION: Retention strategies used in the study are described, including promoting a positive relationship with participants, maintaining contact with participants, having a study staff with good interpersonal skills, using incentives, conveying respect for participants, and using user-friendly data collection. OUTCOMES: Useful strategies to promote a positive relationship included sending cards and newsletters to participants, maintaining consistency of contact person, and expressing appreciation for participant's time and effort. Useful strategies for maintaining contact with participants included obtaining contact information at every data collection point, maintaining birth dates and chart numbers in tracking databases, monitoring returned mail, and using Web search engines. Other useful strategies were providing incentives to participants, employing staff with good interpersonal skills, providing participants with choices when appropriate, and using user-friendly data collection. One strategy, using contests, was not found useful. CONCLUSIONS: Despite the challenges of conducting longitudinally designed studies with emerging adults, multiple retention strategies can be used that are useful to retention. IMPLICATIONS: It is feasible to conduct longitudinal studies with emerging adults despite the challenges.
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Program engagement and retention are expected challenges with transition-age youth in general and with remote delivery.
“Program engagement and retention are expected challenges with transition-age youth in general (Kim et al., 2012) and with remote delivery as well (Hanna et al., 2014; Murray et al., 2009; Watson et al., 2018).”
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The Abstract (Implications) says retention in longitudinal studies is especially challenging for emerging adults. The Discussion describes Web-based questionnaires as useful and less burdensome, but does not establish that remote delivery itself creates engagement or retention challenges for a program. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Hanna, K. M., Scott, L. L., & Schmidt, K. K.
- Affiliations
- National Institute of Nursing Research (US)
- Corresponding author
- Hanna, Kathleen M.
- Venue
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Published
- 2014-01
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 41-45
- ISSN
- 0887-6274 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3894828
- OpenAlex
- W2046393071
- Cited by
- 72
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- 33
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- 2.38
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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- Clinical Nurse Specialist (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
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- Funders
- National Institute of Nursing Research (R01NR009810)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Health Information Management › Methodologies in Health Research and Practice
- Keywords
- participant retention, retention strategies, emerging adults, longitudinal study, type 1 diabetes, transition to young adulthood, incentives
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Humans, Longitudinal Studies
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