A Personal Touch: The Most Important Strategy for Recruiting Latino Research Participants.
People from non-White racial groups and other underserved populations, including Latinos, are frequently reluctant to participate in research. Yet their participation into research is foundational to producing information that researchers and health care providers need to address health disparities. The purpose of this article is to describe challenges we have encountered along with culturally relevant strategies we used in five research studies to recruit Mexican American participants from community settings, some of whom were also of low socioeconomic status. We found that the most effective recruitment strategies reflect the common cultural values of personalismo, simpátia, confianza, respeto, and familismo.
1 The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Alexandra A
AA
García
1 The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA.
Julie A
JA
Zuñiga
2 University Hospital, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Czarina
C
Lagon
D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003142:Communication; D005239:Fear / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D017058:Mexican Americans / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018579:Patient Selection; D010560:Personnel Selection / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D012107:Research Design; D035844:Researcher-Subject Relations / Q000523:psychology; D012923:Social Class; D035502:Trust / Q000523:psychology
Latinos; diabetes; other methods/designs