Enablers | Strategies to help maximise |
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Recruitment and participation | |
Leveraging pre-existing networks and relationships with key stakeholders | • Provide adequate pre-recruitment engagement with stakeholders and elicit expressions of interest |
• Engage with stakeholders at trial-design stage to build a sense of ownership and address research objectives of participants | |
Increased research capacity | • Understand research needs of sites and fulfil gaps in research capacity as requested |
• Incorporate capacity building as a key outcome for participation | |
• Provide opportunity for training at health service level to build research capacity within primary healthcare. | |
Research as a quality service indicator and team building exercise | • Provide structured training for sites as a means for team building between and across sites |
• Research participation as a quality assurance indicator for primary practices: policy development consideration | |
Professional support for the intervention under evaluation and tangible benefits to the service or participant | • Understand and address professional concerns about the intervention under evaluation |
• Promote the potential benefits of trial participation to health service and participants | |
Personal and community benefits research participation | • Understand and promote benefits (and risks) of research to individuals and community |
• Educate participants about research goals and needs | |
• Ensure participants feel sufficiently empowered to make decisions about ongoing participation | |
Research and primary practice settings | |
Provision of research coordinator | • Prior to implementation, proactively identify site resource needs in terms of trial-related administration, communication, data management and patient management |
• Ensure adequate research and logistical support is provided |