ArticlePediatric obesity2018
Recruitment outcomes, challenges and lessons learned: the Healthy Communities Study.
Article in Pediatric obesity, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Strategic recruitment and retention for pediatric research: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Neighborhood environments underpin screen time intervention success in children: Evidence from a study of greenspace and community programming across 130 US communities.Health & place · 2024Article
- Do Police Encounters Increase the Risk for Cardiovascular Disease? Police Encounters and Framingham 30-Year Cardiovascular Risk Score.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of multimodal participant recruitment in SPARK, a large, online longitudinal research study of autism.Journal of clinical and translational science · 2024Article
- Household food insecurity and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviour in the United States: the Healthy Communities Study.Public health nutrition · 2022Observational
- Household Food Insecurity is Associated with Higher Adiposity among US Schoolchildren Ages 10-15 Years: The Healthy Communities Study.The Journal of nutrition · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Healthy Communities Study (HCS) was a national study of community programs and policies that aimed to address childhood obesity; it necessitated recruitment of a large sample of children from communities throughout the United States.
objectiveThe HCS aimed to complete visits with an average of 45 children and 12 key informants from at least 120 communities, diverse with respect to region of the country, urbanicity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity and intensity of community programs and policies that aim to address childhood obesity.
methodsPurchased address lists were utilized to select households for recruitment during Wave 1 of the study, and recruitment of families through schools was employed for Wave 2.
resultsThe HCS successfully obtained approval from 149 school districts and 478 schools in 130 communities, recruited 5138 families, and interviewed 1421 key informants to allow for characterization of overall intensity of obesity prevention/treatment efforts in each community.
conclusionsLessons learned are presented. Future studies should plan for inclusion of the following in development of recruitment strategies: literature review, formative research, pilot testing, and ongoing monitoring and adjustment.
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