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 Snowball
Recruitment
This
form of recruitment is acceptable only if it is in the passive form.
That is participants may be asked to discuss the research with friends/contacts
whom they think may be interested in volunteering to be participants.
Those new participants should then contact the research team to
volunteer. Active snowballing when participants volunteer their
friends/contacts directly to the research team is not acceptable.
Market
Research Companies
The
use of market research companies is permitted but they must
provide confirmation that:
The
Market Research Company must sign a declaration that research
data obtained will be the sole property of the research team.
The research team must disclose from whom the funds are obtained
to employ the Market Research Company.
Recruitment
of patients
Where
the treating professional (doctor, physiotherapist, nurse, etc)
is involved in the research either as a researcher or as a recruiter,
then the Committee prefers that potential participants in the research
be given an introductory pamphlet describing that they will be approached
about becoming research participants, and that they have the right
to decline such participation without compromise to their subsequent
treatment. The researcher/recruiter may then approach them to volunteer
for the study only after they have had sufficient time to consider
the original pamphlet.
Recruitment
of students during lectures/tutorials
Where
questionnaires are distributed at the time of classes this
should not be done in class time, and specifically the questionnaires
should not be completed in class time. Returning of the questionnaires
should be arranged so that an anonymous returns box is the
repository, so that there is no coercion possible from the
research team.
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