Although the South African community service programme has been in effect since 1998, little is known about how placement and practical support occur, or how community service may impact future retention of health professionals.
While an understanding of risk factors that may impact patient retention in this critical stage in the HIV care cascade is growing, further examination of lost to follow- up and its risk factors among patients not yet eligible for ART is warranted.
Future studies should explore how different 'packages' of incentives may impact motivation and retention, how retention varies over time (included the longer term) and how often and through what mechanism community health workers should be replaced or re-affirmed.
Learning that does occur is more likely to be superficial and not placed in the region of the brain that is optimal for storing and recalling information, which may impact long term retention.
The target population is vulnerable and experiencing an acute stressor, which in turn may impact on both recruitment and retention, a challenge identified by other trials with couples facing cancer.
On the other hand, longer trials are considerably more expensive, are marred with patient retention concerns (which may impact the interpretability of the results as described below), and cause a delay in obtaining an answer to the question the trial is designed to address.
Poor retention of glaucoma knowledge may impact the likelihood of patient follow up, and reinforcement with repeated counseling may be beneficial with regard to both disease knowledge and follow-up.
Although it is important to track the retention of students, this type of coarse-grained measure does not provide insights into the underlying mechanisms that may impact the experiences of female students.
The answer may impact freshness.
without impacting retention, engagement or consumption time metrics.
