Gatekeepers in research: the experience of recruiting carers of people with chronic blood cancers.

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Epub Date: 2023-06-29 DOI:10.7748/nr.2023.e1877

Orlaith Cormican, Maura Dowling

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Abstract

Background: Gatekeepers play a crucial role in successfully recruiting participants to nurse-led qualitative research, particularly in clinical settings.

Aim: To present the authors' experience of recruiting and conducting qualitative interviews during the COVID-19 pandemic with the carers of patients who have chronic haematological malignancies, and the effects that gatekeepers had on recruitment.

Discussion: The authors had to adapt and adjust their research plan because of difficulties in accessing their target population. Establishing and maintaining relationships with gatekeepers and a Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) panel was integral in successfully collecting data.

Conclusion: Ongoing reflexivity and feedback from supervisors, gatekeepers and PPI members in addition to developing research experience can help researchers to overcome challenges in recruiting difficult-to-access populations.

Implications for practice: Researchers need to be prepared for challenges to their research plans and carefully consider the options available for addressing these challenges. Reaching out to others is integral in expanding researchers' ideas.

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研究中的守门人：招募慢性血癌患者照顾者的经验。

背景：目的：介绍作者在COVID-19大流行期间招募并对慢性血液恶性肿瘤患者的照顾者进行定性访谈的经验，以及守门人对招募的影响：讨论：由于难以接触目标人群，作者不得不调整研究计划。与守门人以及患者和公众参与（PPI）小组建立并保持关系是成功收集数据的关键：结论：除了积累研究经验外，持续的反思和来自导师、把关人和患者与公众参与小组成员的反馈可以帮助研究人员克服在招募难以接触的人群时遇到的挑战：研究人员需要做好应对研究计划挑战的准备，并仔细考虑应对这些挑战的可用方案。与他人接触是拓展研究人员思路不可或缺的一部分。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.