Feasibility of Conducting Long-term Health and Behaviors Follow-up in Adolescents: Longitudinal Observational Study.
Giovanni CucchiaroLuis M AhumadaGeoffrey GrayJamie FiersteinHannah YatesKym HouseholderWilliam S FryeMohamed RehmanPublished in: JMIR formative research (2022)
This study identifies several challenges to long-term medical follow-up in adolescents, including willingness to participate in these types of studies and compliance with the various data collection approaches. Several of these challenges-insufficient incentives and personal contact between researchers and patients-should be addressed in future studies.