title: Predictors of post-release research retention and subsequent reenrollment for women recruited while incarcerated.
abstract: Correctional facilities are prime targets for nursing interventions to decrease health disparities, but challenges to post-release follow-up limit use of the longitudinal research designs needed to fully examine intervention effects. Using an adapted version of the Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations, we determined predictors of 1-year post-release study retention and subsequent reenrollment an average of 3 years later in 88 mother and child dyads recruited from a state prison nursery. Predisposing characteristics and enabling factors emerged as strong predictors of loss to follow-up. Female research participants can be successfully retained years after release from a correctional facility. Understanding the barriers and facilitators to post-release follow-up supports the creation of theoretically informed strategies to retain formerly incarcerated populations.
authors: Columbia University School of Nursing, 617 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA.
authors: Lorie S
authors: LS
authors: Goshin
authors: Mary W
authors: MW
authors: Byrne
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies / Q000379:methods; D009724:Nurseries, Infant; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000379:methods*; D018579:Patient Selection; D011329:Prisoners; D011330:Prisons; D014481:United States; D035862:Vulnerable Populations