Balancing safety and retention: Strategies to reduce attrition in IPV research

Anderson, Heather A.

Friday, March 20, 2015: 4:00 PM-5:20 PM

Room 13/14 (Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel)

Speaker:
Heather A. Anderson, B.S., Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh

Authors:
Heather L. McCauley, ScD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC
Daniel J. Tancredi, PhD, University of California at Davis
Jay Silverman, PhD, UCSD
Michele R. Decker, ScD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Elizabeth Miller, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC

Presentation Format:
Scientific Program Report

Learning Objectives:

Have learned new techniques for retaining high percentages of participants in clinic-based longitudinal studies on intimate partner violence.
Have learned techniques for ensuring and addressing the safety needs of study participants who are marginalized such as those seeking care are family planning clinics and those who have experienced abuse.

Description:
This proposed presentation will describe innovative techniques used, in a longitudinal family planning clinic-based study on intimate partner violence (IPV), to retain participants while also taking into account and addressing the safety needs of this marginalized population. Retention rates for this study far exceeded those typical of RCTs of IPV interventions. Ensuring participant safety and maximizing retention is possible.