Staying connected with your participants

Use our toolkit to share research updates with your participants.

Research shows that 80% of people are more likely to join future studies if they receive regular updates. 

Co-produced with the Parkinson's community, researchers, Research Ethics Committees and the Health Research Authority, our toolkit makes it easy to keep your participants engaged until your findings are published.

Why use the Staying Connected Toolkit

Watch our 2-minute video on YouTube.

The Staying Connected Toolkit

Explore our communication templates, guidance on when to use them, and why staying connected is so important to the Parkinson’s community. 

Download the toolkit
survey poster

Download individual toolkit elements 

Communications plan: 

 

Templates:

Guides on communicating with your participants:

 

The data behind why we created the toolkit:

  • Poster: data from our Continuous Engagement Project outlining the reasons for creating the toolkit.

Short update examples:

Feedback from people who've used the toolkit

It is very easy to lose touch with participants, especially once studies are in their data analysis stage, however, it is really important to continue communicating, and the update and newsletter templates have made it easy to do so.

Dr Thomas Payne, Clinical Fellow at Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience

Contact us

If you have any questions, comments or feedback about the toolkit, please get in touch with us at [email protected].