Trial reportThe international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity2017
A pragmatic examination of active and passive recruitment methods to improve the reach of community lifestyle programs: The Talking Health Trial.
Trial report in The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02193009 (SipSmarter), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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SipSmarter: A Nutrition Literacy Approach to Reducing Sugary Beverages
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Strategies for recruitment of adolescent girls into physical activity programmes: a systematic review and regression analysis.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Effective and cost-effective strategies for recruiting rural adults into a civic engagement and health behavior change research study.BMC public health · 2026Trial
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- Kids SIPsmartER reduces sugar-sweetened beverages among Appalachian middle-school students and their caregivers: a cluster randomized controlled trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2024Trial
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- A comparison of two mail-based strategies to recruit older cancer survivors into a randomized controlled trial of a lifestyle intervention.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Trial
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- Costing a population health management approach for participant recruitment to a diabetes prevention study.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Using a population health management approach to enroll participants in a diabetes prevention trial: reach outcomes from the PREDICTS randomized clinical trial.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Application of social marketing to recruitment for a digital weight management intervention for young adults.Translational behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- The reach and effectiveness of SIPsmartER when implemented by rural public health departments: a pilot dissemination and implementation trial to reduce sugar-sweetened beverages.Translational behavioral medicine · 2020Trial
- Supporting maintenance of sugar-sweetened beverage reduction using automated versus live telephone support: findings from a randomized control trial.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2018Trial
- A tripartite model for recruiting African-Americans into fatherhood intervention research.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.) · 2018Trial
- PRENACEL - a mHealth messaging system to complement antenatal care: a cluster randomized trial.Reproductive health · 2017Trial
- Implementing a family-based intervention to promote healthy family routines in deprived neighborhoods - a feasibility study from Bremen, Germany.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Assessing the Fit of a Digitally Delivered National Diabetes Prevention Program Among Rural Living Adults: Qualitative Study.JMIR formative research · 2025Article
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- Building Healthy Families: Outcomes of an Adapted Family Healthy Weight Program Among Children in a Rural Mid-Western Community.Childhood obesity (Print) · 2024Article
- Electronic Monitoring Of Mom's Schedule (eMOMSPreventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Targeted Strategies for Recruitment and Engagement of Latinx Immigrants in Longitudinal Biobehavioral Research.Hispanic health care international : the official journal of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundA primary challenge for behavior change strategies is ensuring that interventions can be effective while also attracting a broad and representative sample of the target population. The purpose of this case-study was to report on (1) the reach of a randomized controlled trial targeting reduced sugary beverages, (2) potential participant characteristic differences based on active versus passive recruitment strategies, and (3) recruitment strategy cost.
methodsDemographic and recruitment information was obtained for 8 counties and for individuals screened for participation. Personnel activities and time were tracked. Costs were calculated and compared by active versus passive recruitment.
resultsSix-hundred and twenty, of 1,056 screened, individuals were eligible and 301enrolled (77% women; 90% white; mean income $21,981 ± 16,443). Eighty-two and 44% of those responding to passive and active methods, respectively, enrolled in the trial. However, active recruitment strategies yielded considerably more enrolled (active = 199; passive = 102) individuals. Passive recruitment strategies yielded a less representative sample in terms of gender (more women), education (higher), and income (higher; p's <0.05). The average cost of an actively recruited and enrolled participant was $278 compared to $117 for a passively recruited and enrolled participant.
conclusionsThough passive recruitment is more cost efficient it may reduce the reach of sugary drink reduction strategies in lower educated and economic residents in rural communities.
trial registrationClinicaltrials.gov; ID: NCT02193009 , July 2014, retrospectively registered.
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