This provided a trusted and recognized name to the project and greatly facilitated scheduling recruitment meetings with facility administrators by ensuring attention to and consideration of the request for participation.
A recruitment plan could be developed which takes into consideration the types of information to be conveyed to potential participants and the timing of requests for participation and for obtaining consent, as this has been shown to impact on women's and families' decisions to participate [ 17, 19, 22, 30].
Literature on recruitment confirms the widely held belief that general practitioners are important sources of information and that a personal expression of interest and request for participation would be more powerful than a generic letter.
Studies show that nurses strongly desire to participate in continuing education programs and the number of requests for participation is increasing [ 2, 5].
Fifty other GPs were approached by e-mail by the research coordinator of a GPs network, none of whom responded positively to the request for participation.
The Greek energy minister, Panagiotis Lafazanis, told agencies last week: "We secured decisive Russian support for Greece's request for participation in the new development bank of Brics countries".
The outcomes of the requests for participation made to potential reviewers of the 525 papers remaining after exclusions (other than a failure to identify a reviewer after four attempts) are given in table 2. Altogether, 1039 reviewers were approached and 471 (45%) agreed to participate (225 in the intervention group and 246 in the control group).
At first, we measured feelings of loneliness with the 'Loneliness Scale' [ 10], which was enclosed in the request for participation.
One partner died soon after the request for participation.
The online request for participation was sent to 620 staff.
A total of 154 requests for participation were sent, and a reminder email was sent to each non-responder 2 weeks later.
