title: Challenges and strategies for conducting intervention research with culturally diverse populations.
abstract: Conducting intervention research with culturally diverse, underserved, and often hard to reach populations in naturalistic or field settings presents investigators with a number of practical challenges. This article describes four special challenges and strategies for dealing with them that clients, service providers, and researchers experienced in conducting a prevention intervention to reduce substance use and sexual risky behaviors with low-income Latina young women. The challenges are (a) building community partnerships; (b) developing interventions that are acceptable and relevant; (c) promoting successful recruitment, participation, and retention of participants; and (d) developing a diverse, cohesive, and committed research team and effective managerial information support systems.
authors: Department of Family and Child Health, University of Washington, USA.
authors: C S
authors: CS
authors: Lindenberg
authors: R M
authors: RM
authors: Solorzano
authors: F M
authors: FM
authors: Vilaro
authors: L O
authors: LO
authors: Westbrook
mesh_terms: D018864:Cultural Diversity; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015399:Nursing Research