Workplace site | Recruitment activity |
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Local adult education and training provider | Flyers and information packs in the reception. Contact at centre informed about study and given packs to distribute. |
Post Office Manual Data Entry Centre (MDEC) | Information cascaded through managers to all employees in team briefings. |
Educational site | |
Local primary school | Article in parent newsletter with study contact details. |
Parent and toddler groups; several local children’s centers | Mother and toddler groups visited. Researchers attended groups and talked with parents. Posters and packs left, or given out during groups. Collected details of interested persons. |
Community site or organization | |
Job centre (Devonport) | Researcher outside the job centre approached smokers explaining the study; 100 packs and reply sheets given out over several periods in a week. Contact details of interested persons collected. |
Local community hub cafe | Local health promotion sessions and food bank sessions attended by researchers; information given out to interested persons. |
Local community cooperative organization | Flyers and posters given out to a local community employer for distribution. |
YMCA (community-run gym) | Posters on display. Fitness Manager promoted study to users of the Stonehouse Gym. |
Researchers attended a children’s session; one pack given out. | |
Local gym | Gym instructors informed about study and provided with information packs and reply sheets to distribute to interested persons. |
Local social club | Central contact informed about study and provided with information packs and reply sheets. |
Public health | Posters and information packs with reply sheets given to the local health club in Devonport. |
Three Local Housing Associations | 180 flyers distributed through mailboxes in housing association residences in Plymouth; flyers distributed and attendance at residents’ meetings. Posters, flyers, and packs left at site for visitors. |
Neighborhood Managers (City Council) | Researchers met with managers in Devonport and Stonehouse. Information distributed. |
Local community learning centre | Information and flyers displayed. Researchers attended information sessions. Contact details of interested persons collected. |
Other | |
Local library | Flyers and posters on display. |
Heart Radio/Plymouth Sound/Radio; local paper | Radio chat about the study and news advert in paper. |
Word of mouth | First 60 trial participants asked to invite friends and/or acquaintances to join the study once they had completed the final follow-up assessment. |
Individual contacts (for example, church minister, day support facility member, or publican) | Posters displayed by contacts. |
Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies Service, Plymouth | Met and encouraged Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners to refer to the study opportunistically. Left flyers, information packs, and reply sheets to be distributed. Encouraged by email. |
Posters displayed around local shops and businesses | Trial posters with contact details displayed in up to 50 local shops and businesses, (newsagents, hairdressers, tattoo parlors, and so on). |