title: Recruitment and cardiovascular risk characteristics of African American and Caucasian midlife women.
abstract: This article describes the use of multiple strategies to recruit women, particularly African American women, into a home-based, moderate-intensity walking intervention and compares African American to Caucasian midlife women on cardiovascular risk characteristics at entry into the program. One hundred seventy-three women aged 45 to 65 years were recruited using a variety of strategies. Baseline findings showed that, on average, the women in the program had modifiable cardiovascular risk factors with proportionately more African American women than Caucasian women having hypertension and low physical fitness. The findings also illustrate the importance of using multiple recruitment strategies to encourage midlife African American and Caucasian women to participate in intervention trials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wilbur
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chandler
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000097:blood / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D003710:Demography; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010349:Patient Compliance; D018579:Patient Selection; D010809:Physical Fitness; D012307:Risk Factors; D018401:Sample Size; D012621:Seasons; D044465:White People; D016387:Women's Health