Recruitment of ethnic minorities for public health research: An interpretive synthesis of experiences from six interlinked Danish studies
Recruitment of ethnic minorities for public health research: An interpretive synthesis of experiences from six interlinked Danish studies
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DOI：
10.1177/1403494816686267
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发表时间：
2017-03-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Kristiansen, Maria
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作者：
Nielsen, Annemette Ljungdalh;Jervelund, Signe Smith;Kristiansen, Maria
目的：本文探讨招募网站的重要性，招募少数民族进入卫生研究。报告综合了丹麦六项相互关联的研究的经验，这些研究采用了不同的方法，并将医疗机构和教育机构作为招募地点。研究方法：受解释性审查的启发，对不同研究中的招募方法数据进行了综合，重点关注招募成功的不同水平。这涉及在有关研究人员之间反复比较、分析和讨论经验的过程。结果：募集成功与否部分取决于募集部位。使用医疗机构作为招聘网站和医疗专业人员作为看门人的效率低于使用学校和教育机构的员工。成功的研究设计还取决于能否挑选出相关少数民族目标人口比例高的具体地点。结论：研究结果，虽然基于少数情况下，表明，卫生专业人员和医疗机构，尽管他们的兴趣在高质量的健康研究到所有人群，未能促进研究访问一些最弱势群体，谁需要被包括在内，以了解健康差距背后的机制。尽管许多医疗保健专业人员真正希望帮助促进此类研究，但这种情况还是发生了。通过这种方式，调查结果间接强调了在研究中接触更脆弱和患病群体的具体挑战。
Aims: This paper examines the importance of recruitment site in relation to the recruitment of ethnic minorities into health research. It presents a synthesis of experiences drawn from six interlinked Danish studies which applied different methods and used healthcare facilities and educational settings as sites for recruitment. Methods: Inspired by interpretive reviewing, data on recruitment methods from the different studies were synthesized with a focus on the various levels of recruitment success achieved. This involved an iterative process of comparison, analysis and discussion of experiences among the researchers involved. Results: Success in recruitment seemed to depend partly on recruitment site. Using healthcare facilities as the recruitment site and healthcare professionals as gatekeepers was less efficient than using schools and employees from educational institutions. Successful study designs also depended on the possibility of singling out specific locations with a high proportion of the relevant ethnic minority target population. Conclusions:The findings, though based on a small number of cases, indicate that health professionals and healthcare institutions, despite their interest in high-quality health research into all population groups, fail to facilitate research access to some of the most disadvantaged groups, who need to be included in order to understand the mechanisms behind health disparities. This happens despite the genuine wish of many healthcare professionals to help facilitate such research. In this way, the findings indirectly emphasize the specific challenge of accessing more vulnerable and sick groups in research studies.