title: Increasing participation in prevention research: strategies for youths, parents, and schools.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Subject participation is a critical concern for clinicians and researchers involved in prevention programs, especially for intensive interventions that require randomized assignment and lengthy youth and parent involvement.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article describes details of an integrated approach used to recruit and retain at-risk high school youths, their parents, and high schools to two different comprehensive, "indicated" prevention programs.
  
  
  METHODS
  Parent and youth recruitment and retention data for the two studies is provided in support of the approach described. A coordinated, multilevel approach, organized around cross-cutting issues, is described in detail as a response to the challenges of including vulnerable populations in intervention research.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Methods are relevant to nurse clinicians who deliver prevention programs, and are important to clinical research that relies upon adequate participation in research programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychosocial and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA. chooven@u.washington.edu
authors.forename: Carole
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hooven
authors.forename: Elaine
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Walsh
authors.forename: Mayumi
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Willgerodt
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salazar
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000374:Aggression / Q000523:psychology; D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D015400:Clinical Nursing Research; D003256:Community Participation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D010290:Parents; D010352:Patient Dropouts; D018579:Patient Selection; D012307:Risk Factors; D012573:School Nursing; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control; D035862:Vulnerable Populations