Recruiting and retaining low-income Latinos in psychotherapy research.

Miranda, Jeanne; Azocar, Francisca; Organista, Kurt C.; Muñoz, Ricardo F.; Lieberman, Alicia F.

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.64.5.868

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“…Most previous accounts of recruiting study participants from ethnically diverse populations come from clinical trials. 2,7,8,10,[20][21][22][23][24][25] Investigators have found that using recruiters from the same ethnic background as the study population, or using community leaders as intermediaries, can help. Instilling trust is important.…”

Section: Strategies For Motivating Latino Couples' Participation In Qmentioning

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Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction

2001

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Many investigators report difficulties recruiting low-income Latinos into health research projects, especially when they seek to enroll more than one family member. We developed a series of strategies that proved effective in motivating candidates who were initially reluctant to enroll. There is a possibility that these strategies biased the composition of the sample. Predictably, the reasons participants gave for enrolling were correlated with the recruitment strategy that had brought them into the study. Furthermore, we found statistically significant associations between recruitment technique and key study variables (e.g., the domestic stability of the couple). By increasing investigators' ability to recruit Latinos, however, the strategies outlined should help to ensure that Latinos' experiences are given due weight in the deliberations of medical professionals and policymakers.

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Section: Strategies For Motivating Latino Couples' Participation In Qmentioning

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Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction

2001

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“…This issue is especially common in studies of urban, minority poor populations. 23,24 The turnover in student therapists affected some participants' willingness to be transferred to new therapists. Motivation to continue may have waned for some clients as a result of a mismatch of the intervention components to women' s perceived needs.…”

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Adapting Psychosocial Intervention Research to Urban Primary Care Environments: A Case Example

Zayas

McKee

Jankowski

2004

The Annals of Family Medicine

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PURPOSE We wanted to describe the unique issues encountered by our research team in testing an intervention to reduce perinatal depression in real-world community health centers.METHOD We used a case study of an experience in conducting a randomized controlled trial designed to test the effectiveness of a low-cost multimodal psychosocial intervention to reduce prenatal and postpartum depression. Low-income minority women (N = 187) with low-risk pregnancies were randomly assigned to the intervention or treatment as usual. Outcomes of interest were depressive symptoms and social support assessed at 3 months' postpartum. RESULTSOur intervention was not associated with changes in depressive symptoms or social support. Challenges in implementation were related to participant retention and intervention delivery. Turnover of student therapists affected continuity in participant-therapist relationships and created missed opportunities to deliver the intervention. The academic-community partnership that was formed also required more involvement of health center personnel to facilitate ownership at the site level, especially for fi delity monitoring. While attentive to cultural sensitivity, the project called for more collaboration with participants to defi ne common goals and outcomes. Participatory research strategies could have anticipated barriers to uptake of the intervention and achieved a better match between outcomes desired by researchers and those of participants.CONCLUSION Several criteria for future research planning emerged: assessing what the population is willing and able to accept, considering what treatment providers can be expected to implement, assessing the setting's capacity to accommodate intervention research, and collecting and using emerging unanticipated data. INTRODUCTIOND uring the past 3 decades, primary care practice-based research has made notable progress in establishing its feasibility and potential to address questions important to primary care and the communities we serve.1-5 Practice-based research can answer questions of greater relevance to primary care practice, test effectiveness of treatments in undifferentiated patient populations, 3 and engage clinicians in the generation of new knowledge that can be readily assimilated into practice.5 Despite gains made, researchers note that challenges persist in successful implementation of studies in primary care settings.6-8 Moving psychosocial intervention research into urban community-based primary care settings that are not research oriented remains highly challenging. Disappointing results of well-designed intervention research may be due to practical diffi culties of implementing studies in unpredictable community-based health centers rather than to lack of intervention effi cacy. pected, to implementing intervention research in community-based settings will remain 1,2,12 and will likely be exacerbated in the unique setting of safety net sites. 13In this article, we describe logistical hurdles encountered in testing an interven...

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“…39,40 These factors includes the study not meeting participants' needs, or possibly creating additional stress on their health, time and efforts. Recruitment of an adequate number and variety of subjects and families is critical to the success of any family study.…”

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Risk perceptions among patients and their relatives regarding prostate cancer and its heredity

Arar

Thompson

Sarosdy

et al. 2000

Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis

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Recruiting and retaining low-income Latinos in psychotherapy research.

Cited by 132 publications

References 41 publications

Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction

Strategies for Motivating Latino Couples' Participation in Qualitative Health Research and Their Effects on Sample Construction

Adapting Psychosocial Intervention Research to Urban Primary Care Environments: A Case Example

Risk perceptions among patients and their relatives regarding prostate cancer and its heredity

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