title: Recruiting families of color from the inner city: insights from the recruiters.
abstract: Family interviewers hired to recruit families of color from low-income communities into a health promotion/prevention research project participated in a focus group to describe their experiences. The family interviewers described (1) recruitment techniques, (2) personal attributes they thought made a difference in their recruitment and retention efforts, (3) barriers they faced during recruitment, and (4) the experience of working for a white researcher.
authors.affiliation: Rush University College of Nursing, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Julion
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Barclay-McLaughlin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D002641:Chicago; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology*; D017144:Focus Groups; D006293:Health Promotion; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D008507:Medically Underserved Area; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D018579:Patient Selection; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D014504:Urban Health; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology