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The Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) hosted a workshop to identify methods to improve response/retention and enhance consent protocols for biomarker and program (administrative) data linkage in nationally representative longitudinal studies of older Americans. The methods discussed will include innovations in survey methods with a multidisciplinary approach, such as framing of questions and consent protocols employing insights from psychology and behavioral economics; messaging and participant engagement approaches about the value of study participation; efforts to understand what would motivate consent to specific protocols; and efforts to understand if a study has adequately secured a social license/trust with respondents.
The meeting materials are available on the NASEM website.