Trial reportHealth promotion practice2016
Recruiting African American Churches to Participate in Research: The Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills for a Better Life Study.
Trial report in Health promotion practice, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Health promotion interventions for African Americans delivered in U.S. barbershops and hair salons- a systematic review.BMC public health · 2021Pooled it
- Learning and Developing Individual Exercise Skills (L.A.D.I.E.S.) for a Better Life: A Church-Based Physical Activity Intervention - Baseline Participant Characteristics.Ethnicity & disease · 2017Trial
- Increasing Physical Activity in Black Women: Results from a Randomized Trial Conducted in Faith-Based Settings.Ethnicity & disease · 2017Trial
- A Community Advisory Board's Role in Disseminating Tai Chi Prime in African American and Latinx Communities: A Pragmatic Application of the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Feasibility of dyadic peer support to augment a church-based healthy lifestyle programme.Health education journal · 2023Article
- Exploring the Readiness of African-American Churches to Engage in a Community-Engaged Blood Pressure Reduction Research Study: Lessons Learned from the Church Challenge.Journal of community engagement and scholarship · 2022Article
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- Overcoming Historical Barriers: Enhancing Positive Perceptions of Medical Research Among African Americans Through a Conference-Based Workshop.Journal of general internal medicine · 2021Article
- Protocol for a systematic review of health promotion interventions for African Americans delivered in US barbershops and hair salons.BMJ open · 2020Article
- A Faith-Integrated Physical Activity Intervention and Cardiometabolic Risk in African American Women.Translational journal of the American College of Sports Medicine · 2019Article
- Effect of Cultural, Folk, and Religious Beliefs and Practices on Delays in Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer in African American Women.Journal of women's health (2002) · 2019Article
- Recruitment of African American Churches to Participate in Cancer Early Detection Interventions: A Community Perspective.Journal of religion and health · 2018Article
- Four Methods of Recruiting Couples Into a Longitudinal Study of Physical Activity in People With Osteoarthritis: Recruitment, Retention, and Lessons Learned.Frontiers in public health · 2018Article
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Physical activity among African Americans (AA) is low; effective intervention strategies are needed. Community-based settings are useful for delivering health-related interventions in racial/ethnic minority communities. This article describes strategies used to recruit churches for participation in a 22-month intervention designed to increase physical activity levels in AA women. Initial recruitment efforts, led by AA study staff, included direct mailers, phone calls, and in-person meetings with church representatives. After 10 months, only five churches were enrolled. Seven community members with existing partnerships/contacts in the faith community were subsequently hired and an additional 26 churches were enrolled within 6 months. Overall response rate was 45%, and churches required 3.5 ± 3.0 months of multiple contacts prior to enrollment. The main primary contacts within churches were individuals with personal interest in the program and pastors. Prior relationship between the research team and churches did not appear to influence church enrollment as much as community member recruiters. The current study identifies several potential strategies that may be useful for increasing success in efforts to recruit AA churches into studies. Additional research is warranted that tests and compares a variety of recruitment strategies to determine the most successful strategies for recruitment in different populations.
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