Background: Birth cohorts provided essential knowledge for clinical and public health
decision-making. However, little is known about retention and determinants of attrition in …

Understanding the factors associated with participation is key in addressing the problem of
declining participation rates in epidemiological studies. This review aims to summarise …

Selection bias is well known to affect surveys and epidemiological studies. There have been
numerous methods proposed to reduce its effects, so many that researchers may be unclear …

The environmental impacts of single-use plastics are increasing worldwide due to the
continual rise in consumption and a lack of appropriate collection and management systems …

Objective: To explore the role of reminders in recruiting and maintaining participation in an
online panel. Methods: 50,045 individuals from five German federal states were invited by …

The proportion of non-participation in cohort studies, if associated with both the exposure
and the probability of occurrence of the event, can introduce bias in the estimates of interest …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to describe time trends in response rates in case-
control studies of cancer and identify study design factors that influence response rate …

Purpose Although previous research has identified factors that may determine willingness to
participate in research, relatively few studies have attempted to quantify the impact non …

The general willingness to participate in health surveys is decreasing, resulting in
increasingly selected study populations. We aimed to examine relative mortality rates by …

Background: The aim of this integrative literature review was to investigate the prevalence of
depression in adults diagnosed with type 2 diabetes within Europe and to examine the link …