Recruiting and retaining community-based participants in a COVID-19 longitudinal cohort and social networks study: lessons from Victoria, Australia

Abstract Background Longitudinal studies are critical to informing evolving responses to COVID-19 but can be hampered by attrition bias, which undermines their reliability for guiding policy and practice. We describe recruitment and retention in the Optimise Study, a longitudinal cohort and social n...

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Main Authors: Thi Nguyen, Alexander J. Thomas, Phoebe Kerr, Ashleigh C. Stewart, Anna Lee Wilkinson, Long Nguyen, Aimée Altermatt, Kathryn Young, Katherine Heath, Anna Bowring, Stephanie Fletcher-Lartey, Dean Lusher, Sophie Hill, Alisa Pedrana, Mark Stoové, Katherine Gibney, Margaret Hellard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-02-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-023-01874-z