Recruiting and Retaining an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Older Adults in a Longitudinal Intervention Study

Austin-Wells, Vonnette; McDougall, Graham J.; Becker, Heather

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“…These additional sessions may have increased learning and retention through practice effects with everyday activities. The four booster sessions for the health promotion group may have increased the mental stimulation for this group (Austin-Wells, McDougall, & Becker, 2006). …”

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The SeniorWISE Study: Improving Everyday Memory in Older Adults

McDougall¹,

Becker²,

Pituch³

et al. 2010

Archives of Psychiatric Nursing

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We tested whether at-risk older adults receiving memory training showed better memory self-efficacy, metamemory, memory performance, and function in instrumental activities of daily living than participants receiving a health promotion training comparison condition. We followed participants for 26 months. The sample was mostly female (79%) and Caucasian (71%), with 17% Hispanics, and 12% African Americans; average age was 75 years and average education was 13 years. The memory training group made greater gains on global cognition and had fewer memory complaints, but both groups generally maintained their performance on the other cognitive measures and IADLs throughout the 24-month study period. Black and Hispanic participants made greater gains than Whites did on some memory performance measures but not on memory self-efficacy. The unexpected finding that minority elders made the largest gains merits further study. This study contributed to the knowledge base of geropsychiatric nursing by providing evidence for an effective psychosocial intervention that could be delivered by advanced practice nurses. Trial Registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00094731

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The SeniorWISE Study: Improving Everyday Memory in Older Adults

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Becker²,

Pituch³

et al. 2010

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“…Successful recruitment of ethnic minorities is even more complex (Arean & Gallagher-Thomson, 1996). In addition to lack of awareness and the difficulties noted with transportation, there is a general mistrust about research due to the Tuskegee Scandal, discrimination by medical professionals in the early 1900"s, and the war atrocities in the name of science (Alvidrez, Azocar, & Miranda, 1996;Arean, Alvidrez, Nery, Estes, & Linkins, 2003;Arean & Gallagher-Thomson, 1996;Austin-Wells, McDougall, & Becker, 2006). A lack of culturally compatible staff involved in research projects (Arean et al, 2003;Arean & Gallagher-Thomson, 1996;Austin-Wells et al, 2006) and the extra burden of time and effort when minorities already have multiple stressors and limited resources (Demi & Warren, 1995) are other factors which interfere with the recruitment process.…”

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“…It has been recommended that the involvement of trusted community members is important to establish a link to the community and improve trust in order to mitigate the issues noted in the last paragraph (Arean et al, 2003;Arean & Gallagher-Thomson, 1996;Austin-Wells et al, 2006).…”

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The Effect of Implicit Stereotypes on the Physical Performance of Older Adults

Moriello

2013

Educational Gerontology

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“…For example, in their community-based influenza health study, Gonzalez, Gardner, and Murasko (2007) found that working collaboratively with leaders in the community to understand the needs of racially diverse older adults improved recruitment of diverse, healthy older adults. Moreover, face-to-face recruitment (Austin-Wells, McDougal, & Becker, 2006; Gonzalez et al), endorsement from community leaders, personal contact, and monetary incentives produced the most responses from older adults in the community, regardless of ethnicity (Gonzalez et al). Adams and colleagues (1997) found that face-to-face contact was more effective than recruiting from other sources and helped to reduce the uncertainty that older adults felt about participating.…”

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An Innovative Approach to Recruiting Homebound Older Adults

Shearer¹,

Fleury²,

Belyea³

2010

Research in Gerontological Nursing

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Recruiting older adults to participate in intervention research is essential for advancing the science in this field. Developing a relevant recruitment plan responsive to the unique needs of the population before beginning a project is critical to the success of a research study. This paper describes our experiences in the process of recruitment of homebound older adults to test a community-based health empowerment intervention. In our study, the trust and partnership that existed between the research team and Community Action Agency facilitated the role of the home-delivered meal drivers as a trusted and untapped resource for study recruitment. Researchers can benefit from thinking creatively and developing meaningful partnerships when conducting research with older adults.The number of people in the United States aged 65 and older increased tenfold in the last century and is expected to double in the first part of this century. Older adults are more likely to suffer from chronic illness, live in poverty, and be isolated from resources and services needed to maintain and promote their health (Administration on Aging, 2007). Thus, awareness of, and access to, personal resources and social contextual resources may play an important role in health promotion and management of chronic illness among older adults (Shearer, 2007;Shearer & Fleury, 2006), and represent critical areas of intervention for community health nursing. Our knowledge concerning the role of interventions to promote health and manage chronic illness in older adults, however, remains relatively limited. Further, few studies provide detail on the processes and procedures of recruitment (Dibartolo & McCrone, 2003;Jancey et al., 2006) among older adults, an at-risk and underserved population.Recruiting older adults to participate in intervention research is essential to advance the science in this field. Guidance concerning the most effective strategies for recruiting older adults in intervention research is limited. Older adults often suffer from chronic illness and medical instability (Hawranik & Pangman, 2002), loss or limited sensory function (Gueldner & Hanner, 1989), limited cognitive capacity (Fulmer, 2001), and limited mobility (Bowsher, Bramlett, Burnside, & Gueldner, 1993). In addition, they often suffer from lack of transportation (Adams, Silverman, Musa, & Peele, 1997), unfamiliarity with research and research procedures (Crosby, Ventura, Finnick, Lohr, & Feldman, 1991), lower levels of education (Gueldner & Hanner), an unwillingness to make a time commitment to research (Resnick et al., 2003), inability to read or have access to newspapers (Gueldner & Hanner), or discomfort or concerns about safety when inviting someone unfamiliar into the home (Porter & Lanes, 2000). Any of NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptRes Gerontol Nurs. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2011 January 27. Homebound older adults, those unable to leave home for reason of illness or incapacitating disability, constitute one group that is especially difficult ...

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Recruiting and Retaining an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Older Adults in a Longitudinal Intervention Study

Cited by 24 publications

References 11 publications

The SeniorWISE Study: Improving Everyday Memory in Older Adults

The SeniorWISE Study: Improving Everyday Memory in Older Adults

The Effect of Implicit Stereotypes on the Physical Performance of Older Adults

An Innovative Approach to Recruiting Homebound Older Adults

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