Reply To: Study participant retention in community engaement

Most research participants are recruited from standard of healthcare facilities outside of the site where the research is conducted, so developing relationships with the staff at those facilities is also essential in participant retention. Keeping them informed of the study, ( provided the information is not confidential) and also informing them of participants well being on the study. This kind of collaboration also makes it easy to access medical records from these outside facilities should the need arise, making it easy to complete SAE reports, etc