Recruiting general practitioners and patients with dementia into a cluster randomised controlled trial: strategies, barriers and facilitators

Table 4 Summary of reasons for participation and non-participation provided by caregivers

	Number of caregivers	Proportion %
Reason for participation^a
Improvement of patient’s wellbeing	73	82.0
Interest in dementia research	69	77.5
Improvement of patient’s health	65	73.0
Improvement of communication with GP	58	65.1
Improvement of disease management	41	46.1
Assistance and discharge due to technology	35	39.3
Better insights in new health technologies	31	34.8
Participation in a raffle of a tablet computer	16	18.0
Other reasons	13	14.6
Reason for non-participation^b
High care burden	25	22.5
Health reasons/advanced dementia/age	21	18.9
No interest in participation	16	14.4
No further explanation	14	12.6
Technology-related rejection	14	12.6
No need for intervention	8	7.2
Other reasons	13	11.7

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