2020
DOI: 10.1177/1609406920904575
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Lessons Learned From the Recruitment of Undocumented African Immigrant Women for a Qualitative Study

Abstract: Although undocumented immigrants represent a particularly vulnerable population, they are underrepresented in health research. To facilitate the engagement of undocumented immigrants in health research, in this article, we describe the methodological issues encountered while conducting a qualitative study where we sought to understand the health care–seeking experiences of undocumented African immigrant women in the United States. Strategies employed in addressing methodological challenges and recommendation f… Show more

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“…Child welfare-involved parents with substance use disorders (SUDs) represent a hard-to-reach population -defined here as a population that is difficult for researchers to access due to various challenging characteristics (e.g., rare/low numbers, socially disadvantaged, hard to identify, no known sample frames, illegal or socially stigmatized behaviors) (Marpsat & Razafindratsima, 2010). Despite prior research on recruitment and engagement of other hard-to-reach populations, such as homeless individuals (Strehlau et al, 2017) and immigrants (Olukotun & Mkandawire-Valhmu, 2020), little research has examined ways to effectively recruit and engage child welfare-involved parents with SUDs in community-based child welfare research, particularly in partnership with child welfare agencies. The present case study adds to the existing literature by reviewing recruitment and data collection strategies for effectively engaging child welfare-involved parents with SUDs in a community-based child welfare evaluation study of the Ohio Sobriety, Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START) program -an intervention model to address co-occurring parental SUDs and child maltreatment.…”
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“…Child welfare-involved parents with substance use disorders (SUDs) represent a hard-to-reach population -defined here as a population that is difficult for researchers to access due to various challenging characteristics (e.g., rare/low numbers, socially disadvantaged, hard to identify, no known sample frames, illegal or socially stigmatized behaviors) (Marpsat & Razafindratsima, 2010). Despite prior research on recruitment and engagement of other hard-to-reach populations, such as homeless individuals (Strehlau et al, 2017) and immigrants (Olukotun & Mkandawire-Valhmu, 2020), little research has examined ways to effectively recruit and engage child welfare-involved parents with SUDs in community-based child welfare research, particularly in partnership with child welfare agencies. The present case study adds to the existing literature by reviewing recruitment and data collection strategies for effectively engaging child welfare-involved parents with SUDs in a community-based child welfare evaluation study of the Ohio Sobriety, Treatment and Reducing Trauma (START) program -an intervention model to address co-occurring parental SUDs and child maltreatment.…”
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“…Many novel insights were garnered from those discussions. First, increasing researchers’ awareness of some minority groups being sensitive to the fear of identification due to undocumented status is key [ 67 ]. Attendees also discussed the importance of education, but specifically in educating the workforce on historical trauma faced by racial/ethnic minority populations so that they can engage from a place of understanding and humility.…”
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“…The large attrition was expected, considering how recruitment was limited by several factors regarding the socio-politically stressful time period. This is typical in studies of vulnerable populations as there are inherent difficulties in recruiting a largely undocumented immigrant population ( 82 ). The high level of attrition may have biased our sample to retain less vulnerable members of the baseline group, particularly as those who left were more likely to be undocumented and unmarried.…”
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confidence: 99%