TY - JOUR
T1 - The challenges of conducting a nurse-led intervention in a randomized controlled trial with vulnerable participants
AU - Park, Tanya
AU - Usher, Kim
AU - FOSTER, Kim
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This paper discusses the challenges encountered by researchers while conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing
the efficacy of a healthy lifestyle educational and exercise intervention for people with serious mental illness. RCTs, even though
considered the “gold standard” of research designs, are still prone to risks of potential bias and threats to their validity. Based on
researcher reflexivity, the combination of reflection and action, during the conduct of the study, this paper outlines a number of
challenges faced by the researchers. These included managing the need of participants to tell their story and be heard, reluctance of
participants to remain in allocated groups, participant literacy, dual role of the nurse nurse-researcher, and reporting the benefits of
nonstatistical results of a quantitative research project. Recommendations for conducting future behavior intervention studies of this type include the incorporation of a reflexive component for the nurse nurse-researcher, highlighting the importance of taking a reflexive stance in both qualitative and quantitative research designs.
AB - This paper discusses the challenges encountered by researchers while conducting a randomized controlled trial (RCT) testing
the efficacy of a healthy lifestyle educational and exercise intervention for people with serious mental illness. RCTs, even though
considered the “gold standard” of research designs, are still prone to risks of potential bias and threats to their validity. Based on
researcher reflexivity, the combination of reflection and action, during the conduct of the study, this paper outlines a number of
challenges faced by the researchers. These included managing the need of participants to tell their story and be heard, reluctance of
participants to remain in allocated groups, participant literacy, dual role of the nurse nurse-researcher, and reporting the benefits of
nonstatistical results of a quantitative research project. Recommendations for conducting future behavior intervention studies of this type include the incorporation of a reflexive component for the nurse nurse-researcher, highlighting the importance of taking a reflexive stance in both qualitative and quantitative research designs.
U2 - 10.1155/2014/394237
DO - 10.1155/2014/394237
M3 - Article
SN - 2090-1429
VL - 1
SP - 1
EP - 6
JO - Nursing Research and Practice
JF - Nursing Research and Practice
IS - 1
ER -