Improving recruitment and retention rates in preventive longitudinal research with adolescent mothers.

PROBLEM: In order to understand the risks and protective factors associated with poor health outcomes in adolescent mothers and their children, nurses need to design rigorous longitudinal research. Attrition of subjects can contribute to sampling error. Recruitment and retention efforts need to be o...

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Publicado en:Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 150 - 154
Autores principales: Seed M, Juarez M, Alnatour R
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Aug2009
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          Seed M
          Juarez M
          Alnatour R
        affil: University of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA; seed@usfca.edu
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          Adolescent Mothers
          Child Development
          Mother-Infant Relations
          Research Subject Recruitment
          Research Subject Retention
          Adolescence
          Adult
          Child
          Descriptive Statistics
          Female
          Infant
          Pregnancy
          Prospective Studies
          Research, Nursing
          Videorecording
          Human
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Female
      ab: PROBLEM: In order to understand the risks and protective factors associated with poor health outcomes in adolescent mothers and their children, nurses need to design rigorous longitudinal research. Attrition of subjects can contribute to sampling error. Recruitment and retention efforts need to be optimized. METHODS: In a 4-year longitudinal study with adolescent mothers and their babies, the design for tracking included frequent phone calls, progressive monetary incentives, gifts, and one phone number of an alternative contact. FINDINGS: Of the 97 mother-infant dyads recruited, retention was 54% at 6 months and 38% at final data collection. Successful strategies included persistence in making contacts and utilizing alternative contact numbers. CONCLUSIONS: Retention rates for this study were low. With today's technology, many additional strategies need to be employed to improve retention rates with adolescent mothers.
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