Recruitment networks
RECRUITMENT
Especially with study centers not directly connected to recruitment of a clinic, recruitment depended on a network. For the 29 participating adolescents in Heidelberg, nine (31%) were referred from community child services. For three (33%) of those, treatment was court ordered. Seven (24%) were referred from the child and youth psychiatry/general psychiatry. Three (10%) were referred from schools, three (10%) from therapists. Two (7%) came from youth centers or youth homes. One (3%) was referred from a health insurance company and one (3%) from peers familiar with the program. For three (10%) adolescents referral was not documented (recruited before design change). Of the 16 adolescents in Mainz, four were recruited from the inpatient (25%), eleven (69%) from the outpatient department of the child and adolescent psychiatry and one (6%) from an already participating sibling.