Recruiting hospitalized Mexican American elder adults and caregivers: challenges and strategies.
Res Gerontol Nurs
; 6(1): 22-8, 2013 Jan.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23244443
Minority group members' participation in clinical research is essential for eliminating health disparities. Early recruitment procedures for a randomized control trial involving minority elder adults at local hospitals were unsuccessful, with challenges at the hospital and individual levels. These challenges included referrals for home health care being written late during hospitalization, hospital staff being reluctant to assist recruiters, ill minority elder adults, and protective or unavailable caregivers. We met these challenges with evidence-based strategies, including changing inclusion criteria, increasing study staff, branding our study, using a consistently respectful manner, and pacing our process. After revising our approaches in various ways, we recruited close to our goal, with relatively good retention. Participants reported that benefiting the community, rather than monetary reward, was a strong motivator to join the study. Unexpected recruitment expenditures exceeded the recruitment budget. Our experiences include strategies that can be more cost effective in future studies at both hospital and individual levels.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Americanos Mexicanos
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Cuidadores
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Seleção de Pacientes
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Hospitalização
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Pacientes Internados
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Aspecto:
Equity_inequality
Limite:
Aged
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Mexico
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Res Gerontol Nurs
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
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GERIATRIA
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos