I have a student conducting research on coping mechanisms used by males with partners suffering from Post Part Depression. It has been very difficult getting participants to complete the survey. Any suggestions on where this can best be posted to improve participation?
Already tried social media sites and groups focused on male issues with limited response.
You msust ask your student to contact clinical psychiatrist who is treating such patients. Through him you can circulate. Also ask him to go to psychiatric hospital near by where many patients must be visiting in OPD. Either a written questionnaire can be distributed and collected or seeking their contact address followed by mailing the questionnaire can be done.
I would also suggest local parenting groups, nursing circles, and midwifery/OB clinics. If the survey is designed for couples to take, then new moms might be able to engage their partners. And joining facebook groups for PPD as well (since a lot of the in-person recruitment is restricted right now)..
On an institutional basis, using researchmatch could also locate participants with PPD across the country who are open to participating in research. If your institution is not connected, here is more information: https://www.researchmatch.org/network/institutions/faq
It depends on your sampling frame.
Twitter is a good platform when you use the correct hashtags
Hi Donna,
Yes it must be difficult to get participants especially now for various reasons.
I agree with what Khurshid A Mattoo said.I think this will help your student to get the right participants
Firstly you need to find the patients with PPD -psychiatrist,psychologist,psychiatry clinics, obstetrician.Some collaboration with psychiatrist could be of help.
Secondly contact the partners via them using various means-contact no,help with clinicians
Finally will be able to recruit these identified partners asper your sampling method
Best wishes
This will be most useful with a purposive sample of individauls who visit the clinics where the post part patients go to seek for treatment. fisrt step is to identify wher they go to seek care and use that to get how many individuals and sample then request to either give questionnaire to all and ask to be returned or mailed to a particular address. I doubt if they would accept face to face interview but explore key informant interviews with willing clients i.e husbands. this has to be intensive with multiple research methods included to yield results
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