TY - JOUR AU - Khidir, Amal AU - Asad, Humna AU - Abdelrahim, Huda AU - Elnashar, Maha AU - Killawi, Amal AU - Hammoud, Maya AU - Al-Khal, Abdul Latif AU - Haddad, Pascale AU - Fetters, Michael D. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/01/26 TI - Patient responses to research recruitment and follow-up surveys: findings from a diverse multicultural health care setting in Qatar JO - BMC Medical Research Methodology SP - 10 VL - 16 IS - 1 AB - Health care researchers working in the Arabian Gulf need information on how to optimize recruitment and retention of study participants in extremely culturally diverse settings. Implemented in Doha, Qatar in 2012 with 4 language groups, namely Arabic, English, Hindi, and Urdu, this research documents persons’ responses to recruitment, consent, follow-up, and reminder procedures during psychometric testing of the Multicultural Assessment Instrument (MAI), a novel self- or interviewer-administered survey. SN - 1471-2288 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-016-0109-3 DO - 10.1186/s12874-016-0109-3 ID - Khidir2016 ER -