difficulties in recruiting pharmacists.
We are doing research on pharmacist-patient relationships and pharmacist-physician relationships with respect to self-tests.
We have difficulty finding pharmacists to participate in an interview. Later, we will have to find some to complete a questionnaire and then some to participate in a co-creation process. The research phases are independent. They are taking part in one of the research phases.
We cannot use financial incentives (Ethics Committee).
Does anyone have any ideas on how to reach this audience effectively? We have tried with professional organizations and it does not work very well. By the way, If you have tried something that did not work, thank you for sharing our experience with us. Thanks in advance for our suggestions!
This is a tough situation. We came across a similar one. We were trying to recruit physicians in s study of information systems use by physicians in private practice. We could not even get enough to commitment upon offer of $50 Amazon gift certificates. We ended up changing the population and study design. Our study participants became the health information exchange office staff and study became a case study.
Thank you for your answer. We are going to persevere a little bit. Our research focuses on three populations: general practitioners, patients and pharmacists. We did not have any problems with the recruitment of general practitioners who were recruited through a professional body (such as our first attempt for pharmacists). Our research focuses on the relationships between pharmacists-patients-GP generally speaking and in the context of health problems/diseases that can be detected by a self-test. We plan to expand the population of pharmacists to include those who have not sold self-tests and also to consider more direct contacts... without knowing if the response rate will be better. Any ideas are welcome: catchphrase? efficient way to contact them?
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