Table 1

Potential reasons for the recruiting failure of the ABCD Obesity study

Study Design
Recruiting Materials

The study name
Poor visual appeal
The selected participant group
Length of the information statement
The method of approaching participants
Readability of the text
Inequitable benefit gained by the research team compared to participants
General approach and content
Ethics approval too highly prioritised


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