Factors associated with enrollment of older adults into a physical activity promotion program.
This article investigates the extent to which a proactive two-phased recruitment approach resulted in recruitment of a representative sample of older adults from two lower income congregate housing facilities into a physical activity promotion program.  Enrollees were similar to nonenrollees with respect to education, gender, marital status, race/ethnicity, self-rated health, physical functioning, psychological distress, exercise frequency, level of social contact, having a confidant, use of alcohol, and smoking status.  However, enrollees were younger, more likely to speak English as a primary language, less likely to be completely sedentary, and more likely to be overweight.  Overall, 21% of the target population were recruited into the program.  Recruitment strategies such as those used in this study appeared to enable enrollment of a reasonably representative sample of a small well-defined population.
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University of California, San Francisco, USA.
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D000368:Aged; D015444:Exercise; D006293:Health Promotion; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires