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Table 3 Recruitment return of telephone reminders to non-responders to a postal reminder invitation

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

Site identifier: health board

Number sent reminder letter

Number of non-responders to reminder letter (%)

Number of non-responders telephoned (%)

Number not responding to any calls (%)

Number recruited after call (%)

Site 1: Tayside

141

70 (50)

27 (39)

4 (15)

0 (0)

Site 2: Forth valley

103

52 (50)

40 (77)

18 (45)

5 (13)

Site 3: Ayrshire & Arran*

67

33 (49)

28 (85)

2 (7)

9 (32)

Site 4: Greater Glasgow

7

7 (100)

3 (44)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Site 5: Greater Glasgow

2

1 (50)

0 (0)

0 (0)

0 (0)

Total

320

163 (51)

98 (60)

24 (24)

14 (14)

  1. *Owing to a misunderstanding, Ayrshire and Arran only started to follow the telephone reminder protocol in July 2011, not January 2011, as at the other sites.