Recruiting hard-to-reach pregnant women at high psychosocial risk: strategies and costs from a randomised controlled trial

Table 2 Conversion rate from referral to recruited participant by recruitment source

	Referrals (N)	Recruited participants (N)	Conversion rate (%)
*Practitioner-led*
Specialist midwife^a (n = 27)	276	156	56.5
Other midwives (n = 133)	397	154	38.8
Other healthcare professionals (n = 2)	3	2	66.7
Social worker (n = 1)	1	0	0.0
3rd sector organisation (n = 3)	5	2	40.0
Others (n = 2)	2	0	0.0
*Researcher-led* (n = 14)	273	158	57.9
*Self-referral* (n = 16)	16	13	81.3
Total	973	485	49.8

n, number of people generating referrals; N, number of referrals
^aSpecialist midwife for women with additional health and social care needs in pregnancy

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