Although recruiting stakeholder participants who the authors were aware had extensive experience of both national level and small-scale CHW programs generated diverse and valuable data, it is likely additional stakeholders not known to the authors could also have provided data of value.
Recruited stakeholders were academics and non-governmental organization (NGO) workers based in Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Central Asia.
Unlike most methods of community engagement, the CE Studio does not require individual researchers to recruit stakeholders and facilitate involvement.
Again, we did not recruit stakeholders other than clinicians, so our results may be biased towards their viewpoint.
Purposive sampling was used to recruit stakeholders with either a mandate or an interest in reducing tobacco use in the NT's Indigenous population.
Here, we highlight the challenges of recruiting key stakeholders (policy-makers, clinicians, guideline developers) to a Canadian Institutes of Health Research CIHRR) funded health services research (HSR) study aimed to develop an updated and refined version of a guideline appraisal tool, the AGREE.
The process of recruiting and retaining stakeholders with diverse experience and expertise was challenging.
To achieve saturation, we estimated recruiting approximately five stakeholders per site, for a total of 20 individuals.
Dealing with local ethics committees and community stakeholders, recruiting and enrolling potentially higher risk women, administering informed consent, bringing participants back for regular study visits, giving ongoing risk reduction and HIV counselling and making referrals for continued healthcare, all within the context of Good Clinical Practice, mimicked future prevention trials.
We have recruited a stakeholder group (that includes patient and public involvement) to provide content expertise for programme theory refinement and will extend the membership as needed.
