Strategies for Recruitment of Healthy Premenopausal Women into the African American Nutrition for Life (A NULIFE) Study.
BACKGROUND
Although African American women have an overall lower incidence of breast cancer, African American women <40 years of age are more likely than Caucasian women of all ages and postmenopausal African American women to be diagnosed with breast cancer and exhibit tumor characteristics associated with poorer survival. To begin to address this disparity, studies must be conducted to examine breast cancer preventive factors in this subpopulation of women. However, the strategies needed to recruit younger African American women have not been well defined.


METHODS
In this study, we assessed methods used for recruiting and retaining healthy premenopausal African American women into the African American Nutrition for Life (A NULIFE) Study. The number of women contacted, enrolled, and retained by each recruitment strategy and the efficiency of individual strategies were calculated.


RESULTS
Overall, recruitment through social networking was most effective in contacting large numbers of healthy premenopausal African American women. The worksite recruitment method was the most efficient recruitment strategy employed, with a ratio of 40%. The study participants (n = 164) were more likely to be >or=35 years of age and have completed some college. Additionally, the interpersonal relationships recruitment approach proved most efficient (33%) in retaining participants who completed the yearlong study.


CONCLUSIONS
The findings from this study add to the evolving research literature on minority recruitment strategies for research studies but specifically address effective recruitment of healthy young premenopausal African American women. The results demonstrate the need to use multiple recruitment strategies when recruiting this subgroup of African American women.
King
Denae W
DW
The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Center for Research on Minority Health, Houston, Texas 77230, USA. dking@mdanderson.org
Duello
Theresa M
TM
Miranda
Patricia Y
PY
Hodges
Kelly P
KP
Shelton
Andrea J
AJ
Chukelu
Paul
P
Jones
Lovell A
LA
D000328:Adult; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care / Q000208:ethnology*; D018579:Patient Selection; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017697:Premenopause / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D016387:Women's Health; D001741:Black or African American
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