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Family Practice Vol. 6, No. 3, 168-172
© Oxford University Press 1989

research-article

Recruiting Family Physicians as Participants in Research

ALEX E M BORGIEL1,, EARL V DUNN2, CAMPBELL T LAMONT3, PETER J MACDONALD4, MARY K EVENSEN1, MARTIN J BASS5, ROBERT A SPASOFF6 and JIVAN WILLIAMS7

1College of Family Physicians of Canada Canada
2Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto Canada
3Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa Canada
4Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University Canada
5Department of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario Canada
6Department of Epidemiology and Community Mcdicine, University of Ottawa Canada
7Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University Canada

Correspondence to Dr A Borgiel, 1221 Bloor Street East, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4Y 2N8

Obtaining the voluntary participation of family physicians in quality of care research is a major problem in family practice research. An innovative approach was therefore required to recruit 120 randomly selected family physicians in southern Ontario in a quality of care study by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. A network of physician recruiters oriented to the study was organized for each district. This recruitment method resulted in an 84.5% participation rate. The relationship of these physician recruiters to the candidate and the method of approach were important factors in the enrolment process: the highest participation rate (95%) was obtained when the recruiters were friends of the candidate and when a personal meeting was arranged (91%). Recruiters were given an information package to help them in the recruitment process and rated the most useful items as follows: a policy statement about confidentiality, a description of the study and reprints of a published feasibility study. These results illustrate that cooperation in research in family physicians' offices can become a reality.


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