Church rosters: is this a viable mechanism for effectively recruiting African Americans for a community-based survey?
OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this report is to describe the process, results, and implications in the phone recruitment of African Americans through church rosters for a survey of diet-and blood pressure-related awareness and hypertension prevalence. DESIGN: The survey was conducted using a non-probab...
| Publicado en: | Ethnicity & Health Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 41 - 56 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Feb2002
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=106973681&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 106973681 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 13557858 EHH jtl: Ethnicity & Health issn: 13557858 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Feb2002 vid: 7 iid: 1 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 106973681 2002150883 10.1080/13557850220146984 106973681 ppf: 41 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Church rosters: is this a viable mechanism for effectively recruiting African Americans for a community-based survey? aug: au: Carter-Edwards L Fisher JT Vaughn BJ Svetkey LP affil: Project Manager and Epidemiologist, Rho, Inc., 100 Eastowne Dr, Chapel Hill, NC 27514; EDWARDSL@RHOWORLD.COM sug: subj: Research Subject Recruitment African Americans Churches Nonprobability Sample Interviews Cross Sectional Studies Convenience Sample Descriptive Statistics Adult Middle Age Aged Aged, 80 and Over Male Female Funding Source Human Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Aged, 80 & over Male Female ab: OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this report is to describe the process, results, and implications in the phone recruitment of African Americans through church rosters for a survey of diet-and blood pressure-related awareness and hypertension prevalence. DESIGN: The survey was conducted using a non-probability sample of churches and a random selection of participants from church rosters. Recruitment strategies included frequent contact with pastors and church representatives, presentations, standard and tailored recruitment approaches, and bi-annual progress reports. Church representatives provided the rosters and assisted in arranging interviews, which were conducted at church or the participants' homes. RESULTS: Of 742 randomly selected, 315 (42.4%) were ineligible because of an unavailable or unreachable number, a move, discontinued church membership, death, or other reasons. Of the 344 eligible, 45.8% participated, 30.2% refused, 4.4% agreed to participate but did not, and 19.6% were incompletes (called less than three times before recruitment was terminated). Among participants, 70.4% were female, 58.2% had completed college, and the age range was 19-91 years. The survey's sample size goal of 196 was met. CONCLUSIONS: In this study population, over 45% who were eligible participated. Rapport established with church representatives and congregations was critical to the sampling process. Using church rosters can be a low-cost, effective recruitment tool. However, key factors to consider when recruiting African Americans in this manner include: trust, study eligibility criteria, roster accuracy, and time, and generalizability. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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