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Other researchers argue that there is, today, a paucity of good quality research documenting the effectiveness of CHWs and the reasons they failed [ 6].
However, a meta-analysis from 2001 stated: "The effectiveness of exercise in reducing symptoms of depression cannot be determined because of a lack of good quality research on clinical populations with adequate follow-up".
Yet despite this, there is a paucity of good quality research and higher levels of evidence in the area.
A meta-analysis of UK studies [ 6] assessing attendance for antenatal care has highlighted a dearth of good quality research identifying the factors that contribute to poor antenatal attendance according to any measures of social class, deprivation, exclusion or ethnicity.
There has been a paucity of good quality research conducted to date, which may be partly explained by the challenges implicit to studying acute events within EDs [ 24, 25].
Specifically, there is a need for good quality research (e.g., large controlled observational or before-after studies with careful handling of confounding) about the benefits and harms of productivity assessment strategies.
Furthermore, despite a plethora of patient-rated QOL studies in long-term survivors of cervical cancer (Vistad et al, 2006), there remains a paucity of good quality research exploring the sexual recovery of women after endometrial, bladder, rectal or anal cancer.
In their systematic review, Lawlor and Hopker even concluded that the effectiveness of exercise in reducing depressive symptoms cannot be determined because of a lack of good quality research, though exercise was found to be more effective than no treatment, and as effective as cognitive therapy [ 7].
The elements of health promotion strategies that are most effective for recruiting and engaging participants are not well understood [ 7, 8] and, in particular, there is a paucity of good quality research examining the most effective strategies to engage 'hard-to-reach', deprived populations in preventative medicine.
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