Recruiting men from across the socioeconomic spectrum via GP registers and community outreach to a weight management fea
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RESEARCH ARTICLE
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Recruiting men from across the socioeconomic spectrum via GP registers and community outreach to a weight management feasibility randomised controlled trial Matthew D. McDonald1,2,3* , Stephan U. Dombrowski4,5, Rebecca Skinner5, Eileen Calveley1, Paula Carroll6, Andrew Elders7, Cindy M. Gray8, Mark Grindle9, Fiona M. Harris1, Claire Jones10, and Pat Hoddinott1 on behalf of the Game of Stones team
Abstract Background: Men, particularly those living in disadvantaged areas, are less likely to participate in weight management programmes than women despite similar levels of excess weight. Little is known about how best to recruit men to weight management interventions. This paper describes patient and public involvement in pre-trial decisions relevant to recruitment and aims to report on recruitment to the subsequent men-only weight management feasibility trial, including the: i) acceptability and feasibility of recruitment; and ii) baseline sample characteristics by recruitment strategy. Methods: Men with BMI ≥30 kg/m2 and/or waist circumference ≥ 40 in. were recruited to the feasibility trial via two strategies; community outreach (venue information stands and word of mouth) and GP letters, targeting disadvantaged areas. Recruitment activities (e.g. letters sent, researcher venue hours) were recorded systematically, and baseline characteristics questionnaire data collated. Qualitative interviews (n = 50) were conducted three months postrecruitment. Analyses and reporting followed a complementary mixed methods approach. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Research Unit, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 2 Physical Activity and Wellbeing Research Group, Curtin University, Perth, Australia Full list of author information is available at the end of the article © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
McDonald et al. BMC Medical Research Methodology
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