Trial reportPreventing chronic disease2015
Recruitment strategies and the retention of obese urban racial/ethnic minority adolescents in clinical trials: the FIT families project, Michigan, 2010-2014.
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28 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Strategies to increase participant diversity in pediatric research: a systematic review.Pediatric research · 2026Pooled it
- Diet, physical activity and behavioural interventions for the treatment of overweight or obese children from the age of 6 to 11 years.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Outcomes From a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial of Weight Loss Strategies for African American Adolescents With Obesity.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2019Trial
- African-American Adolescents' Weight Loss Skills Utilization: Effects on Weight Change in a Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2019Trial
- Predictors of Retention among African Americans in a Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Healthy Eating and Active Living in the Spirit (HEALS) Intervention.Ethnicity & disease · 2017Trial
- High-Intensity Interval Training for Overweight Adolescents: Program Acceptance of a Media Supported Intervention and Changes in Body Composition.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2016Trial
- Rationale and design of a race-conscious, school-linked, pilot randomized controlled trial to improve physical activity and dietary behaviors of Black adolescent daughter/mother dyads.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Culturally responsive recruitment of Black daughter-mother dyads through community engagement.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Barriers to and solutions for representative inclusion across the lifespan and in life course research: The need for structural competency highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2023Review
- Facilitators and barriers to pediatric clinical trial recruitment and retention in rural and community settings: A scoping review of the literature.Clinical and translational science · 2022Article
- Optimizing Recruitment of Black Adolescents into Behavioral Research: A Multi-Center Study.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2021Article
- Recruitment of Asian Americans with Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorder for Research Participation: Barriers, Strategies, and Outcomes.Community mental health journal · 2021Observational
- Recruitment and retention in randomized controlled trials with urban American Indian/Alaska Native adolescents: Challenges and lessons learned.Clinical trials (London, England) · 2021Article
- Managing Outliers in Adolescent Food Frequency Questionnaire Data.Journal of nutrition education and behavior · 2021Article
- Assets and Challenges to Recruiting and Engaging Families in a Childhood Obesity Treatment Research Trial: Insights From Academic Partners, Community Partners, and Study Participants.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Correlates related to follow-up in a community engagement program in North Central Florida.Journal of community psychology · 2020Article
- Effect of soluble corn fiber supplementation for 1 year on bone metabolism in children, the MetA-bone trial: Rationale and design.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Adolescent Trials Network for HIV-AIDS Scale It Up Program: Protocol for a Rational and Overview.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2019Article
- Recruitment and retention strategies for an urban adolescent study: Lessons learned from a multi-center study of community-based asthma self-management intervention for adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2018Article
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Abstract
introductionThe successful recruitment and retention of participants is integral to the translation of research findings. We examined the recruitment and retention rates of racial/ethnic minority adolescents at a center involved in the National Institutes of Health Obesity Research for Behavioral Intervention Trials (ORBIT) initiative by the 3 recruitment strategies used: clinic, informatics, and community.
methodsDuring the 9-month study, 186 family dyads, each composed of an obese African American adolescent and a caregiver, enrolled in a 6-month weight-loss intervention, a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial. We compared recruitment and retention rates by recruitment strategy and examined whether recruitment strategy was related to dyad baseline characteristics.
resultsOf the 186 enrolled families, 110 (59.1%) were recruited through clinics, 53 (28.5%) through informatics, and 23 (12.4%) through community. Of those recruited through community, 40.4% enrolled in the study, compared with 32.7% through clinics and 8.2% through informatics. Active refusal rate was 3%. Of the 1,036 families identified for the study, 402 passively refused to participate: 290 (45.1%) identified through informatics, 17 (29.8%) through community, and 95 (28.3%) through clinics. Recruitment strategy was not related to the age of the adolescent, adolescent comorbidities, body mass index of the adolescent or caregiver, income or education of the caregiver, or retention rates at 3 months, 7 months, or 9 months. Study retention rate was 87.8%.
conclusionUsing multiple recruitment strategies is beneficial when working with racial/ethnic minority adolescents, and each strategy can yield good retention. Research affiliated with health care systems would benefit from the continued specification, refinement, and dissemination of these strategies.
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