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Table 1 Peer mentors recruitment, training and deployment

From: Lessons learnt during a complex, multicentre cluster randomised controlled trial: the ProAct65+ trial

 

London

Nottinghamshire/Derbyshire

Time spent on recruitment by staff (months)

12

15

Expressed interest (n)

130

79

Trained (n)

50

21

Disengaged (n)

19

14

Volunteered (n)

31

7

Time from trained to deployed (days)

Mean 132 (range, 21-255)

Mean 155 (range, 75-257)

  1. This table shows the time taken to recruit peer mentors in both trial sites, the numbers of individuals who expressed an interest in becoming a peer mentor, those who were trained, disengaged and volunteered, and the time it took from when peer mentors were trained to when they began their volunteering at both trial sites.