title: Optimizing enrollment in pediatric obese patients: reflections on recruitment characteristics.
abstract: Clinical research involving children and adolescents with obesity is challenging due to recruitment, transportation barriers, parents/guardians working multiple jobs and the need to coordinate the schedule of the participant and the parent/guardian. We describe recruitment efforts and successes for a longitudinal observational study of adolescents with obesity.
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authors.forename: Casey R
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Tak
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authors.forename: Tian
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authors.lastname: Yu
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authors.forename: Catherine M T
authors.initials: CMT
authors.lastname: Sherwin
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authors.forename: Nicole L
authors.initials: NL
authors.lastname: Mihalopoulos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D064887:Observational Studies as Topic / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018579:Patient Selection; D063766:Pediatric Obesity
keywords: enrollment; pediatric obesity; recruitment