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Letter – New challenges in school‐based research
Author(s) -
Thomas Laura
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
health promotion journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.515
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 2201-1617
pISSN - 1036-1073
DOI - 10.1071/he09073
Subject(s) - population health , health economics , public health , community health , medicine , medical education , nursing
Previously in this Journal, eight important recommendations to successfully recruit and retain schools in research studies were presented.1 The Child Health Promotion Research Centre (CHPRC) has conducted school-based research in Western Australia for over 15 years and employed all these recruitment strategies with great success, achieving response rates between 75% and 95%.2,3 However, in the current climate of schoolbased research, new challenges affect recruitment efforts, leaving these recruitment strategies insufficient.