Using evidence-based methods of recruitment, our goal was to recruit 192 individuals: 80 international guideline developers, 80 Canadian clinicians and 32 Canadian policy/decision-makers.
Eight hundred and forty three potential recruits replied to all methods of recruitment (528 from GP letters and 315 from other methods).
The real-life effectiveness of such interventions is dependent on the setting, the characteristics and representativeness of the targeted and recruited population sample and the methods of recruitment.
As the manpower needs of the military continued to increase, more systematic methods of recruitment became necessary.
Indeed, the measure was killed in the Legislature, only to be revived in a quick special session with one caveat that has kept enrollment figures low: the state could not give contracts to public schools to enroll students, one of the most successful methods of recruitment.
He added: "This overseas campaign will supplement our on-going and significant efforts to attract candidates to the area using more traditional methods of recruitment".
Researchers should consider their target group, advertisement wording, offering incentives and no-cost methods of recruitment when considering Facebook as a recruitment source.
The studies included showed substantial heterogeneity regarding objectives and study design, location and setting, numbers and characteristics of participants, screening personnel, methods of recruitment and types of data collected.
We aimed to pilot an intervention targeted at smokers with severe mental ill health and to test methods of recruitment, randomisation, and follow up before implementing a full trial.
Methods of recruitment and for obtaining consent were approved by the two Ethics Committees.
The methods of recruitment also slightly differed between the participating countries, which might have affected the distribution of household sizes.
