Empowering, informing and retaining volunteer research participants: Parkinson’s UK launches an online communications toolkit for researchers and research participants
Parkinson’s UK has developed an interactive web-based communications toolkit to help researchers and participants keep in touch after they have taken part in a research study. The toolkit was created after a survey showed that 72% of people who have taken part in Parkinson's research didn't hear anything after contributing. Laurel Miller, who has Parkinson’s and was a member of the steering group behind the toolkit, said: “Researchers should use this toolkit because people want to feel that their participation in