Recruitment and retention in minority populations : lessons learned in conducting research on health promotion and minority aging / Sue E. Levkoff ... [et al.], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levkoff, Sue.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Minority older people--Health and hygiene--Research--United States.

Minority older people.

Minorities--Health and hygiene--Research--United States.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Despite projections of significant growth in older minority populations, researchers have little more than surface-level appreciation of how cultural factors will shape mental and physical health outcomes. This volume is part of a new wave of studies designed to address the issue of recruiting and retaining minority elders for participation in research studies. The authors highlight the strengths and weaknesses of a wide array of research designs, ranging from small, in-depth qualitative studies to randomized, controlled behavioral interventions. Several chapters focus on successes with Africa

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Overview; A National Program to Enhance Research on Minority Aging and Health Promotion; Commentaries; Promoting Minority Health Research at the National Institutes of Health; Recruiting Older Women and Minority Members Into Clinical Trials: An Important Goal for Researchers; Contributions of Behavioral and Social Research to Recruitment and Retention of Minority Populations: A Commentary; Special Articles; The Matching Model of Recruitment; Recruiting African Americans for Health Studies: Lessons From the Drew-RAND Center on Health and Aging

Recruitment of Older African Americans Into Church-Based Exercise Programs Predicting Retention for Older African Americans in a Community Study and a Clinical Study: Does Anything Work?; Health Promotion Research With Mexican American Elders: Matching Approaches to Settings at the Mediator-and Micro-Levels of Recruitment; Minority Populations and Psycho-physiologic Research: Challenges in Trust Building and Recruitment; The Power of Labels: Recruiting Dementia-Affected Chinese American Elders and Their Caregivers

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-281-80625-0

9786611806255

0-8261-1659-0

OCLC:

286715192