ArticleField methods2018
Recruitment and Retention of Homeless Youth in a Substance Use and HIV-risk Reduction Program.
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Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevalence of Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders Among Adolescents Experiencing Homelessness: A Systematic Review.Community mental health journal · 2025Pooled it
- Group motivational interviewing for homeless young adults: Associations of change talk with substance use and sexual risk behavior.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Trial
- A group-based motivational interviewing brief intervention to reduce substance use and sexual risk behavior among homeless young adults.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2017Trial
- Perceptions from emerging adults with a history of homelessness on their experiences with housing, health and other support services.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- Predictors of Housing Trajectories Among Young Adults Experiencing Homelessness in Los Angeles.The journal of behavioral health services & research · 2024Article
- Associations between service use and behavioral health trajectories among young adults experiencing homelessness.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- The association between housing stability and perceived quality of life among emerging adults with a history of homelessness.Health & social care in the community · 2023Article
- Housing First Combined with Suicide Treatment Education and Prevention (HOME + STEP): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Recruitment of US Adolescents and Young Adults (AYA) into Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-Related Behavioral Research Studies: A Scoping Review.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2020Article
- Virtual Reality Meditation Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of Feasibility.JMIR mental health · 2020Article
- Study protocol for a group-based motivational interviewing brief intervention to reduce substance use and sexual risk behavior among young adults experiencing homelessness.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2020Article
- A text message intervention for quitting cigarette smoking among young adults experiencing homelessness: study protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2020Article
- Internet and Social Media Access Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: Mixed-Methods Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
- Predictors of Retention in an Alcohol and Risky Sex Prevention Program for Homeless Young Adults.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Article
- Lessons learned from conducting a community-based, nurse-led HIV prevention trial with youth experiencing homelessness: Pivots and pitfalls.Public health nursing (Boston, Mass.)Article
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Abstract
Conducting intervention studies with homeless populations can be difficult, particularly in terms of retaining participants across multiple sessions and locating them for subsequent follow-up assessments. Homeless youth are even more challenging to engage due to substance use, mental health problems, wariness of authority figures, and frequent relocations. This article describes methods used to successfully recruit a sample of 200 homeless youth from two drop-in centers in Los Angeles, engage them in a four-session substance use and sexual risk reduction program (79% of youth attended multiple sessions), and retain 91% of the full sample at a three-month follow-up assessment. Our experience indicates that utilizing structured project materials and having a small dedicated staff are essential to recruitment and retention efforts for intervention studies with homeless youth. Using these and other nontraditional methods are likely necessary to engage this at-risk yet hard-to-reach population.
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