Recruitment
RECRUITMENT
Health talks on the topic of the use of VR for promoting mental health will be delivered in the collaborating LTCF. The residents, their family caregivers, and the staff members will be invited to attend. After the talks, recruitment will immediately begin at the scene. Both electronic (e-poster, short videos) and printed (e.g., flyers) promotional materials will be produced. The materials will be sent to the collaborating LTCF before the health talks. The collaborating LTCF will be invited to share the materials with potential participants and their family members via post, email, WhatsApp, and social media (e.g., Facebook). The project team and the staff members of the collaborating LTCF will be responsible for the recruitment continuously until the potential participants are exhausted. To ensure a high recruitment rate, the eligibility criteria and research information materials will be provided and explained to staff members of the collaborating LTCF in a research briefing session hosted by the research team. This is to ensure that the participants invited by the LTCF staff members are more likely to be eligible to join this study. It is estimated that the recruitment rate will be above 50%.