Recruitment and Retention in Remote Research: Learnings From a Large, Decentralized Real-world Study

Sophia Xueying Li   ¹ , MHI ;   Ramzi Halabi   ¹ , PhD ;   Rahavi Selvarajan   ¹ , BEng ;   Molly Woerner   ² , BA ;   Isabell Griffith Fillipo   ² , BA ;   Sreya Banerjee   ³ , PhD ;   Brittany Mosser   ² , MSW ;   Felipe Jain   ³ , MD ;   Patricia Areán   ² , PhD ;   Abhishek Pratap   ^{1, 4, 5, 6, 7} , PhD

¹ Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, ON, Canada

² Department of Psychiatry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States

³ Depression Clinical and Research Program, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

⁴ Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁵ Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶ Kings College London, London, United Kingdom

⁷ Department of Biomedical Informatics and Medical Education, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States