Recruitment and Enrollment of Low-income, Minority Residents of Urban Public Housing into Research.

Health disparities Minority health Oral health Public housing Subject recruitment Urban health

Journal

Journal of community health
ISSN: 1573-3610
Titre abrégé: J Community Health
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7600747

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 2023
Historique:
accepted: 15 03 2023
medline: 1 9 2023
pubmed: 4 4 2023
entrez: 3 4 2023
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Research participation among vulnerable populations is often limited by the same socioeconomic factors that contribute to poor health. Identifying best practices for inclusion is critical to addressing health disparities. Urban public housing communities bear a disproportionate burden of chronic disease and may represent an opportunity to directly engage historically vulnerable populations in research designed to ultimately reduce that burden. We used mixed-method data to analyze recruitment effectiveness among a random sample of households (N = 380) across two public housing developments in Boston, MA who were approached for participation in a pre-COVID oral health study. Quantitative data from detailed recruitment tracking methods was analyzed to assess the relative efficiency of the methods employed. Field journals of study staff were qualitatively analyzed to identify community-specific recruitment barriers and facilitators. The participation rate among randomly sampled households was 28.6% (N = 131), with participation from primarily Hispanic (59.5%) or Black (26%) residents. Door-to-door knocking with response yielded the highest participation (44.8%), followed by responses to informational study flyers (31%). Primary barriers to enrollment included references to unemployment and employment variations, shift work, childcare responsibilities, time demands, and managing multiple appointments and social services. This study finds active, door-to-door knocking and return visits resolved barriers to participation, and reduced safety concerns and historic distrust. It's time to consider how best to adapt effective pre-COVID recruitment practices for utilization under current and future exposure conditions as effective recruitment of populations such as urban public housing residents into research is only becoming more important.

Identifiants

pubmed: 37005967
doi: 10.1007/s10900-023-01212-w
pii: 10.1007/s10900-023-01212-w
pmc: PMC10067510
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

741-751

Subventions

Organisme : NIDCR NIH HHS
ID : U54DE019275; K99R00 DE025917
Pays : United States

Informations de copyright

© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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Auteurs

Brenda Heaton (B)

Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 560 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 329, Boston, MA, USA. brenda9@bu.edu.
Department of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA. brenda9@bu.edu.

Alicia Muzzi (A)

Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 560 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 329, Boston, MA, USA.

Christina Gebel (C)

Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 560 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 329, Boston, MA, USA.

Judith Bernstein (J)

Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Raul I Garcia (RI)

Department of Health Policy & Health Services Research, Boston University Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine, 560 Harrison Avenue, 3rd Floor, Rm 329, Boston, MA, USA.

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