Difficulties in Recruiting Participants for a Research Study on Immigrant Dementia Caregiver: Challenges in Conducting Research with a Culturally Diverse Population.

The article discusses the challenges in recruiting participants for a study on immigrant dementia care giving in Switzerland. It mentions the factors that hinder the immigrants to participate which are lack of knowledge, sense of security and cultural view of dementia. It states socioeconomic constraints, language and literary barriers and lack of access to medical care caused low participation of ethnic minorities in clinical research. It is also theorized that mistrust of the scientific community is one of the reasons behind the low participation.