Learning from remote decentralised clinical trial experiences: A qualitative analysis of interviews with trial personnel, patient representatives and other stakeholders.

30 Although the COVID‐19 pandemic may have increased older people's engagement with digital technology to access services and facilitate social connection, there are still likely to be significant numbers who remain digitally excluded. 31 Research has identified critical cognitive, social, cultural and physiological barriers for this, including low self‐confidence, perceiving themselves as novices or lacking patience, fear of breaking devices and text or buttons being too small. 32 , 33 Therefore, supplying devices with mobile data provided, with bigger keypads and text magnification, and simplifying interfaces could support the participation of older adults in RDCTs.

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