PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Holtrop, Jodi Summers
AU  - Davis, Melinda M.
TI  - Primary Care Research Is Hard to Do During COVID-19: Challenges and Solutions
AID  - 10.1370/afm.2889
DP  - 2022 Nov 01
TA  - The Annals of Family Medicine
PG  - 568--572
VI  - 20
IP  - 6
4099  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/6/568.short
4100  - http://www.annfammed.org/content/20/6/568.full
SO  - Ann Fam Med2022 Nov 01; 20
AB  - Conducting research in primary care during the COVID-19 pandemic is hard, due to baseline stresses on primary care, which have been compounded by the pandemic. We acknowledge and validate primary care researchers’ frustrations. Using our experience on over 15 individual projects during the pandemic we identify 3 key challenges to conducting primary care research: (1) practice delivery trickle-down effects, (2) limited/changing resources and procedures for research, and (3) a generally tense milieu in US society during the pandemic. We present strategies, informed by a set of questions, to help researchers decide how to address these challenges observed during our studies. In order to overcome and grow from these challenging times we encourage normalization and self-compassion, and encourage researchers and funders to embrace pragmatic and adaptive research designs as the circumstances with COVID-19 evolve over time.