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Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/14997, first published .
Improving Understanding of Participation and Attrition Phenomena in European Cohort Studies: Protocol for a Multi-Situated Qualitative Study

Improving Understanding of Participation and Attrition Phenomena in European Cohort Studies: Protocol for a Multi-Situated Qualitative Study

Improving Understanding of Participation and Attrition Phenomena in European Cohort Studies: Protocol for a Multi-Situated Qualitative Study

Sandra C S Marques 1, 2 , PhD ;   Julia Doetsch 1, 3 , MSc ;   Anne Brødsgaard 4 , PhD ;   Marina Cuttini 5 , MD, PhD ;   Elizabeth S Draper 6 , PhD ;   Eero Kajantie 7, 8, 9, 10 , MD, PhD ;   Jo Lebeer 11 , MD, PhD ;   Sylvia van der Pal 12 , PhD ;   Pernille Pedersen 4 , MD ;   RECAP - WP6 QS Work Group 13 ;   Henrique Barros 1, 14 , MD, PhD

1 EPIUnit , Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto , Universidade do Porto , Porto , PT

2 Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia , Instituto Universitário de Lisboa , Lisbon , PT

3 School of Public Health and Primary Care , Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , NL

4 Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine , Copenhagen University Hospital Amager Hvidovre , Copenhagen , DK

5 Research Unit of Perinatal Epidemiology, Clinical Care and Management Innovation Research Area , Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù Institute for Research Hospitalization and Health Care , Rome , IT

6 Department of Health Sciences , College of Life Sciences , University of Leicester , Leicester , GB

7 Public Health Promotion Unit , National Institute for Health and Welfare , Helsinki , FI

8 PEDEGO Research Unit , MRC Oulu , University of Oulu and Oulu University Hospital , Oulu , FI

9 Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine , Norwegian University for Science and Technology , Trondheim , NO

10 Children’s Hospital , Helsinki University Hospital , Helsinki , FI

11 Department ELIZA Primary & Interdisciplinary Care , Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences University of Antwerp , Antwerp , BE

12 TNO Child Health , Leiden , NL

13 see Acknowledgments , delete , AO

14 Departamento de Ciências da Saúde Pública e Forenses e Educação Médica , Faculdade de Medicina , Universidade do Porto , Porto , PT

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