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Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation

An Office of the Administration for Children & Families

Challenges to Conducting Intensive Studies in Early Care and Education Settings

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On avg., it took 5 attempts to reach anyone at a center. On avg., it took 7 total contacts to get the center to agree to participate. We needed to contact 9 to 10 centers to recruit 1 into the study

The Assessing the Implementation and Cost of High Quality Early Care and Education (ECE-ICHQ) study found that reaching a decision maker at a center and obtaining a decision on study participation took significant time and effort.