OBJECTIVE To explore the strategies used to improve retention in primary care randomised trials. DESIGN Qualitative in-depth interviews and thematic analysis. PARTICIPANTS 29 UK primary care chief and principal investigators, trial managers and research nurses. METHODS In-depth face-to-face interviews. RESULTS Primary care researchers use incentive and communication strategies to improv...

This paper is a …rst step in investigating the competitive and welfare e¤ects of behavior-based price discrimination (BBPD) in markets where …rms have information to employ retention strategies as an attempt to avoid the switching of their clientele to a competitor. We focus on retention activity in the form of a discount o¤ered to a consumer expressing an intention to switch. When retention st...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention (DHAP) conducted outcome monitoring studies on evidence-based interventions (EBIs) provided by CDC-funded community-based organizations (CBOs). Critical to the success of outcome monitoring was the ability of CBOs to recruit and retain clients in evaluation studies. Two EBIs, Video Opportunities for Innovative...

Crop residues management has great effects on weeds in croplands. To understand the weed responses to crop and impact yield, a field trial with three strategies been conducted North China Plain since 2008. Weed community composition structure across species, morphological types, life forms, levels were investigated during 2019–2020. The results show that retention significantly decreased densit...

The study aimed at investigating whether the retention of vocabulary acquired incidentally is dependent upon the amount of task-induced involvement. Immediate and delayed retention of twenty unfamiliar words was examined in three learning tasks( listening comprehension + group discussion, listening comprehension + dictionary checking + summary writing in L1, and listening comprehension + dictio...

Background: Recruitment, willingness to participate, and retention in interventions are indispensable for successful prevention. This study investigated the effectiveness o f different strategies for recruiting and retaining low-SES women in depression prevention, and explored which sociodemographic characteristics and risk status factors w ith in this specific target group are associated w ith...

Background: Recruitment, willingness to participate, and retention in interventions are indispensable for successful prevention. This study investigated the effectiveness o f different strategies for recruiting and retaining low-SES women in depression prevention, and explored which sociodemographic characteristics and risk status factors w ith in this specific target group are associated w ith...

Background: Recruitment, willingness to participate, and retention in interventions are indispensable for successful prevention. This study investigated the effectiveness o f different strategies for recruiting and retaining low-SES women in depression prevention, and explored which sociodemographic characteristics and risk status factors w ith in this specific target group are associated w ith...