During the holidays, festive food provides tempting opportunities to overeat<\/a> or indulge in foods that aren\u2019t part of our normal diets. Also, holiday festivities, travel, and gatherings can throw study participants off of their normal schedule. This can potentially disrupt study participant compliance with items such as:<\/p>\n Provide reminders to participants of study parameters so they can still stay on track with study compliance. Also, you might be able to reschedule a site visit within the visit window if you see that, for example, the site visit occurs the morning after the participant\u2019s gala family soiree.<\/p>\n Holidays can easily unravel a family routine. Your participant may have family members visiting. Or, just having the children home from school all day<\/a> for a couple of weeks could limit your participant\u2019s availability.<\/p>\n Here are 2 options:<\/p>\n Sometimes participant compliance rests on overcoming a temporary obstacle.<\/p>\n Snowbirds are\u00a0northerners<\/a>\u00a0who move to a\u00a0warmer<\/a> southern locale in the winter. If you live in an area where participants are likely to migrate based on the weather (hot or cold), it\u2019s important to assess this prior to enrollment. However, sometimes participants forget to disclose this or their plans change.<\/p>\n If a potential participant is perfect for a difficult to recruit to study and is a snowbird, or you\u2019re trying to keep an enrolled patient in a study, there may be some options to help.<\/p>\n Does the study offer remote options that would work for the times the participant would be out of town? If in-person procedures are needed for these visits, consider working with the sponsor\/CRO to see if there is another study site in the destination area and if they would allow (and the site would be willing) to perform the interim study visits.<\/p>\n If your participants see the lengths you are going through to ensure compliance over the holidays, it will likely reinforce to them the importance of not skipping visits.<\/p>\n Participant compliance and retention are challenges even in the best of times, and communication can go a long way. Making sure your participant feels appreciated<\/a> is a key to compliance and retention throughout the study. A surprising number of participants say they\u2019ve never been thanked<\/a> for taking part in studies and the holidays are a great time to do this.<\/p>\n We often refer to participants as the heroes of research. Trials, and the medical advances made through research, don\u2019t happen without them. But here come the holidays \u2013 will your study participant compliance waver during these busy times? Patient recruitment, retention, and compliance with study visits and procedures are central to the success of clinical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false,"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"html"}]},"author":2,"featured_media":378798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"acf":[],"gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"link","format":"url"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378793"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378797,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378793\/revisions\/378797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platohealth.ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Tip 2: Help Clear Holiday Disruptions<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Tip 3: Work With the Sponsor or CRO to Accommodate Snowbirds<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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