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Filter by:The If I Were Jack feasibility trial will test the acceptability and feasibility of using and evaluating a unique and scientifically informed educational resource on the topic of teenage men and unintended pregnancy in post-primary schools in Northern Ireland. The study is being conducted by a multidisciplinary team at Queen's University Belfast with collaborators and will begin in May 2014. It is a phase II feasibility trial with an embedded process evaluation, twenty four months in duration. The research will assess the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention and trial methods, and provide estimates for a phase III cluster randomised trial, including potential effect sizes and recruitment, retention and participation rates, so that the feasibility and optimal design of a full-scale trial can be ascertained. It will include an analysis of the costs of delivering the intervention and a process evaluation using a mixed-methods triangulated design to determine the acceptability of the intervention and research measures to participants and to establish fidelity to implementation protocol. Additionally, it will assess variation in normal practice of Relationship and Sexuality Education in participating schools in relation to teenage pregnancy.
Recruiting, retaining and gathering complete data on participants in research projects, be they patients or health professionals, can be extremely difficult. These problems increase the risk that research will be abandoned before its true value is appreciated, or lead to delays in resolving uncertainty for decision makers, while further studies are done. Poor recruitment, retention and outcome collection frequently lead to many prospective studies being extended, increasing costs. Researchers need to use strategies that are themselves evidence-based. This study proposes to link with an existing longitudinal ageing study called NICOLA to provide evidence on what research participants prefer in relation to providing personal information through a self-completed questionnaire. NICOLA is a large study of people over the age of 50 that is being conducted in Northern Ireland. NICOLA is aiming to recruit 8500 people and will ask them questions about participation in social activities, including organised structured and informal activities; relationship quality; loneliness; stress; resilience; quality of life; alcohol intake; food poverty and assess their health and wellbeing. Participants in NICOLA agree to having an interviewer visit them at home to ask questions about their lives, complete questionnaires in their own time and attend a health assessment appointment. They also agree to being followed up over a course of at least 10 years. The research described here will examine the impact of differing times and formats of a self assessment questionnaire on completion rates, specifically: - To assess the effect of being given a questionnaire during a face to face interview with a researcher compared to receiving it by post - To explore the potential impact of interview fatigue on completion rates
The Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) is an opportunity to conduct methodology research relevant to many features of a large prospective study. NICOLA will begin in earnest in Northern Ireland in 2013 and is being conducted by a multidisciplinary team in the Centre for Public Health at Queen's University Belfast. It is an omnibus programme of research on ageing that will continue for at least 10 years and will recruit 8500 middle-aged people in Northern Ireland and follow them into old age, providing a comprehensive assessment of their physical and mental health, their lifestyles, and their social and economic decision making. NICOLA will look at how they perceive disability and health, and how this differs between well-off and disadvantaged groups. NICOLA will also study various genetic, biological and psychological factors, including how participants perceive risk and value their time, and the effect of this on their retirement behaviour (including how they manage their money and their health). People over the age of 50 will be invited to take part and asked to complete detailed interviews and questionnaires every 2 years and health assessments every 4 years. The overall aim of this research is to examine the impact of differing invitation letters offered to participants on study recruitment rates.