Recruitment and Enrollment of Low-income, Minority Residents of Urban Public Housing into Research.
Research participation among vulnerable populations is often limited by the same socioeconomic factors that contribute to poor health. Identifying best practices for inclusion is critical to addressing health disparities. Urban public housing communities bear a disproportionate burden of chronic dis...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Community Health Vol. 48; no. 5; pp. 741 - 752 |
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Springer Nature
Oct2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=171102021&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 171102021 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00945145 JCH jtl: Journal of Community Health issn: 00945145 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct2023 vid: 48 iid: 5 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 171102021 10.1007/s10900-023-01212-w ppf: 741 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 619KB tig: atl: Recruitment and Enrollment of Low-income, Minority Residents of Urban Public Housing into Research. aug: au: Heaton, Brenda Muzzi, Alicia Gebel, Christina Bernstein, Judith Garcia, Raul I. affil: Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 560 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 329, Boston, MA, USA Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA su: Human research subjects Minorities Social networks Public housing Income Qualitative research Metropolitan areas Medical research Oral health Patient selection Research funding Descriptive statistics Data analysis software sug: subj: Human research subjects Minorities Social networks Public housing Income Qualitative research Metropolitan areas Medical research Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Biotechnology) Lessors of social housing projects Other Individual and Family Services Oral health Patient selection Research funding Descriptive statistics Data analysis software keyword: Health disparities Minority health Subject recruitment Urban health Health disparities Minority health Subject recruitment Urban health ab: Research participation among vulnerable populations is often limited by the same socioeconomic factors that contribute to poor health. Identifying best practices for inclusion is critical to addressing health disparities. Urban public housing communities bear a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and may represent an opportunity to directly engage historically vulnerable populations in research designed to ultimately reduce that burden. We used mixed-method data to analyze recruitment effectiveness among a random sample of households (N = 380) across two public housing developments in Boston, MA who were approached for participation in a pre-COVID oral health study. Quantitative data from detailed recruitment tracking methods was analyzed to assess the relative efficiency of the methods employed. Field journals of study staff were qualitatively analyzed to identify community-specific recruitment barriers and facilitators. The participation rate among randomly sampled households was 28.6% (N = 131), with participation from primarily Hispanic (59.5%) or Black (26%) residents. Door-to-door knocking with response yielded the highest participation (44.8%), followed by responses to informational study flyers (31%). Primary barriers to enrollment included references to unemployment and employment variations, shift work, childcare responsibilities, time demands, and managing multiple appointments and social services. This study finds active, door-to-door knocking and return visits resolved barriers to participation, and reduced safety concerns and historic distrust. It's time to consider how best to adapt effective pre-COVID recruitment practices for utilization under current and future exposure conditions as effective recruitment of populations such as urban public housing residents into research is only becoming more important. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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