Meeting the challenges of recruitment to multicentre, community-based, lifestyle-change trials: a case study of the BeWEL trial

Shaun Treweek; Erna Wilkie; Angela M. Craigie; Stephen Caswell; Joyce Thompson; Robert J. C. Steele; Martine Stead; Annie S. Anderson

doi:10.1186/1745-6215-14-436

Meeting the challenges of recruitment to multicentre, community-based, lifestyle-change trials: a case study of the BeWEL trial

Shaun Treweek
, Erna Wilkie
, Angela M. Craigie
, Stephen Caswell
, Joyce Thompson
, Robert J. C. Steele
, Martine Stead
, Annie S. Anderson

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Recruiting participants to multicentre, community-based trials is a challenge. This case study describes how this challenge was met for the BeWEL trial, which evaluated the impact of a diet and physical activity intervention on body weight in people who had had pre-cancerous bowel polyps.

Original language	English
Article number	436
Number of pages	11
Journal	Trials
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-14-436
Publication status	Published - 18 Dec 2013

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