They could not be recruited and adequately consented at extreme levels of item severity.
However, there is evidence that some groups are under-represented in mental health research [ 9] whereby insufficient numbers of participants are recruited to adequately represent a particular group of patients.
Take a look at the blue bars in the chart above, which show the share of employers who report having difficulty recruiting adequately skilled workers.
"We are concerned that the department is falling behind plans to recruit adequately skilled and experienced staff to work in these countries and is using instead short-term contractors," said the report.
We examine why recruited participants may not adequately represent the greater disease-suffering population.
However, snowball sampling used alone can result in biased samples and it is important that any sample recruited to the study adequately represents the target population.
Further clouding the literature is that most genetic studies have not adequately described populations from which samples were recruited, precluding an assessment of participation bias and potentially affecting internal and external validity [ 5].
We have recruited sufficient participants to undertake an adequately powered trial to detect a mean difference in weight of 2.5 kg between the intensive and light intervention groups at the 5% significance level.
It is a situation that poses a health risk for both workers and food safety, as many staff, including migrants, are often recruited on a casual basis and not trained adequately whilst others are fearful of being penalised for taking time off when sick, according to trade unions.
An adequately powered sample of 54 physiotherapists from the Philippines will be recruited and randomly allocated to EBP intervention or waitlist control.
Structural validity was assessed by comparing the six-point scale and HAP with the IPAQ-L7S, 40 demonstrating that a brief scale can assess PA adequately when compared to the longer SRPAQs on a heterogeneous sample recruited by verbal invitation.
