A678: Retention of participants over 21 years for three age cohorts.

Retention of participants over 21 years for three age cohorts.

Approved: 2017

Collaborators:

Prof Deborah Loxton
Prof Julie Byles
Prof Gita Mishra
Mrs Anna Graves
Dr Xenia Dolja-Gore
Dr Melissa Harris
Ms Peta Forder
Dr Amy Anderson
Ms Isabelle Barnes
Mr Nick Egan
Ms Natalie Townsend
Ms Natalie Townsend
AProf Leigh Tooth

Synopsis

Effective participant retention is a challenge for longitudinal cohort studies. Over the past 25 years ALSWH has retained participants in three cohorts who were aged 18-23, 45-50 and 70-75 when the study first collected data in 1996. Women leave the study for a variety of reasons and these differ by cohort. The aims of this paper are to examine the predictors of attrition and retention across the original three ALSWH cohorts and to examine the effectiveness of various retention methods.