OSTRICH was an RCT investigating the effectiveness of prefabricated orthoses compared with exercise and advice alone on the physical functioning of children with symptomatic flat feet.
The trial included a cluster randomised SWAT looking at the effectiveness of using a multimedia intervention in addition to the usual participant information sheet to aid recruitment. Unfortunately, the main trial struggled to recruit and was closed early.
As you ight expect, this led to challenges for the SWAT. The OSTRICH team has written a blog-type article in which they describe the aims of the multimedia SWAT, share insights from its development and discuss the issues with the analysis that they ultimately faced.
You can read the article here.
