Navigating the Longitudinal Maze: Unravelling Challenges in the Follow‐up of a Dementia Cohort Study
Sunitha HS, Abhishek Mensegere Lingegodwa, Ajith Partha, Prathima Arvind, Divya NM, Amitha CM, Deva Kumar HS, Rajitha Narayanasamy, Meghana R, Meenakshi Menon, Vindhya Vishwanath, Goutham Velavarajan, Sadhana Singh, Palash K Malo, Albert Stezin, Jonas S Sundarakumar, Thomas Gregor Issac · 2025
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Sunitha and co-authors describe the struggle of keeping volunteers in a long-running dementia study in India, in a 2025 paper. The Tata Longitudinal Study of Ageing follows healthy community volunteers with yearly cognitive tests, blood work, and brain scans. Volunteers are recruited through talks, adverts, and word of mouth, and clinicians share each person's results to keep contact warm. Newsletters and yearly meets add to the tie.
Dropouts still came, and the team catalogued the reasons given when people were called back. A mobile unit visited homes of those who could not travel but wished to stay. The paper refines the follow-up protocol and offers the lessons to other cohort studies. Retention, the authors show, is a design problem, not luck.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Sunitha HS, Abhishek Mensegere Lingegodwa, Ajith Partha, Prathima Arvind, Divya NM, Amitha CM, Deva Kumar HS, Rajitha Narayanasamy, Meghana R, Meenakshi Menon, Vindhya Vishwanath, Goutham Velavarajan, Sadhana Singh, Palash K Malo, Albert Stezin, Jonas S Sundarakumar, Thomas Gregor Issac |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |