Recruiting older African American men to a cancer screening trial (the AAMEN Project).
OBJECTIVE
This article describes the demographic characteristics of participants in a randomized trial (the AAMEN Project) designed to recruit older (aged 55+ years) African American men to a cancer screening trial.


METHODS
The AAMEN Project is a recruitment trial developed for African American men aged 55+ years living in southeastern Michigan.


RESULTS
Of the 34,376 African American men in the study, 37.6% had low incomes and 62.4% had moderate-to-high incomes. The average age of the men was 63.3 years (SD = 5.9 years). Among men who were eligible and interested in participating, the proportion of men with low incomes was significantly greater than the proportion of men with moderate-to-high incomes (p <.001).


CONCLUSIONS
The AAMEN Project demonstrated success in recruiting a substantial proportion of men with low incomes as well as men with moderate-to-high incomes. These findings may facilitate the development of future recruitment efforts involving older African American men.
Ford
Marvella E
ME
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA. mford@bcm.tmc.edu
Havstad
Suzanne L
SL
Tilley
Barbara C
BC
D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D008824:Michigan / Q000208:ethnology; D008875:Middle Aged; D018579:Patient Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000208:ethnology; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors