Hi Colleagues
Great thoughts on retention , however we speak of retention because participants are already in the study and understood the pros and cons and ICF is an on-going process to mitigate any misconceptions or any clarity from participants. Participants lives changes like ours and the point of retention is to work around new situations that can occur such as relocation, new employment, college, social harms and new information on research or negative publicity on research etc. The role of retention is broader than participants but issues that can affect study outcomes.
Thanks
Lucky
