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Enrollment Challenges: Recruiting Children From Diverse Racial and Ethnic Communities to a Study of Physical Activity

Ya-Fen Wang1, Soon Young Ha2, Trevor Watkins3

  • 1Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA.

Journal of Transcultural Nursing : Official Journal of the Transcultural Nursing Society
|August 28, 2020
PubMed

Insights

Recruiting diverse children for research is challenging. Referrals and proactive strategies, including smartphone use, improved recruitment and retention rates in a study on physical activity and stress.

Area of Science:

  • Pediatric Health Research
  • Community-Based Participatory Research

Background:

  • Recruiting and retaining children from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds in research presents significant challenges.
  • Addressing health disparities requires effective inclusion of diverse populations in scientific studies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe effective methods for recruiting children from diverse racial and ethnic communities.
  • To improve researchers' understanding of successful recruitment and retention strategies for pediatric studies.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from a cross-sectional study on children's physical activity and stress.
  • Identified and analyzed recruitment and retention strategies employed over a 5-month period.

Main Results:

  • Successfully recruited 83.7% of 92 potential participants, with 93.5% completing the study.
  • The participant group was 54% White and approximately 30% Hispanic.
  • Participant referrals, rather than school-based methods, became the primary recruitment source.

Conclusions:

  • Recruitment strategies must be tailored to diverse racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds.
  • Proactive approaches, including leveraging technology like Quick Response (QR) codes, can enhance recruitment and retention.
  • Participant referral networks are a powerful tool for engaging diverse pediatric populations in research.
Abstract

Keywords:
childrenrecruitmentretentionunderrepresented minority populations

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