title: Building a registry of research volunteers among older urban African Americans: recruitment processes and outcomes from a community-based partnership.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  An emerging strategy for increasing public participation in health research is volunteer registries. Using a community-based participatory research framework, we describe recruitment processes and outcomes in building a research volunteer registry of older urban African Americans. The specific research question examined retrospectively was: How does a community outreach partnership between older residents and academic researchers of the Healthier Black Elders Center facilitate recruitment of older urban African Americans for a research volunteer registry?
  
  
  METHODS
  We adapted program evaluation methods, specifically, the logic model, for clarifying how community outreach health education activities supported development of a research volunteer registry of older urban African Americans.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Paralleling the 7 years in which an annual health reception was held, enrollees in a research volunteer registry increased from 102 to 1,273 enrollees.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Targeted outreach to underrepresented groups to build a registry of volunteers for health research may be a promising strategy for addressing recruitment disparities in African Americans' research participation.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Michigan, 1080 S University Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. lethac@umich.edu
authors.forename: Letha A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Chadiha
authors.forename: Olivia G M
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Washington
authors.forename: Peter A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Lichtenberg
authors.forename: Carmen R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Green
authors.forename: Karen L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.forename: James S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000465:Algorithms; D035843:Biomedical Research; D003256:Community Participation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D012042:Registries; D012494:Sampling Studies; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014838:Volunteers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*