Methods Of Recruitment

To eliminate health disparities and much better understand aging processes in ethnically diverse populations, reliable techniques for increasing participation of minority populations in health research study are needed. To develop a reliable strategy that will motivate older grownups to offer for research study, particularly those from variation populations, needs understanding factors of effective recruitment and creating innovative strategies to attend to recognized barriers to recruitment. We offer 2 types of resources on this topic.

CADC Recruitment Research

CADC faculty and scholars have advanced recruitment techniques in numerous methods through our projects hiring patients from health care settings and hiring individuals from communities. We summarize our publications on the following aspects of recruitment of diverse older grownups and other health variations populations.

1. Overarching concerns in hiring varied older grownups
2. Key factors of successful recruitment
3. Innovative strategies to hire varied populations
4. Experimental research studies of the effectiveness of different methods of recruitment
5. Feasibility of recruitment: standards and examples

The downloadable file consists of links to each publication. For those that are not public gain access to, we supply a link to a PDF.

Publications on Methods of Recruitment of Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Building a Health Registry of Diverse Older Adults

One ingenious recruitment method is the of health registries. CADC faculty (Drs. Celia Kaplan, Tung Nguyen, and Leah Karliner) examined six publications by systematically reporting methodological aspects of developing and executing health computer system registries targeting older grownups. The kinds of computer system registries include usage of social media, and community organizations.

Using a Health Registry to Recruit Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Using Social Media for Recruitment

The CADC Community Liaison and Recruitment Core examined 6 publications and report some methodological elements of using social networks for the recruitment of adults into research study studies. The selected publications concentrate on using Facebook as it is the most used social networks outlet.