title: Community events as viable sites for recruiting minority volunteers who agree to be contacted for future research.
abstract: Reaching out to medically underserved racial/ethnic groups is a key challenge in population research. To increase their participation opportunities, we asked adults attending community events to complete a survey about their health concerns and invited them to join a registry of individuals agreeing to future study invitation. Approximately 66% of the 2298 survey responders joined the registry. Multivariate analysis showed that Hispanics were more likely to agree to contact than Whites. Agreers endorsed a wider range of health concerns than non-agreers.
authors.affiliation: Division of Behavioral and Communication Sciences, Department of Clinical Sciences and Simmons Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA. wendy.bishop@utsouthwestern.edu
authors.forename: Wendy Pechero
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Bishop
authors.forename: Jasmin A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Tiro
authors.forename: Simon J Craddock
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Corinne M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Bruce
authors.forename: Celette Sugg
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Skinner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008913:Minority Groups; D018579:Patient Selection; D012042:Registries; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D013781:Texas; D055815:Young Adult