Strategies and cost of recruitment of middle-aged and older unmarried women in a cancer screening study
Strategies and cost of recruitment of middle-aged and older unmarried women in a cancer screening study
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DOI：
10.1158/1055-9965.epi-07-0157
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发表时间：
2007-12-01
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3.8
通讯作者：
Hawthorne, Terri L.
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作者：
Clark, Melissa A.;Neighbors, Charles J.;Hawthorne, Terri L.
目的：我们比较了策略和成本招募未婚中年和老年妇女的合作伙伴与妇女（WPW）和妇女的合作伙伴与男性（WPM）到一个观察性研究的经验与癌症screen.Methods：我们使用有针对性的和响应驱动的抽样方法来招募潜在的参与者。比较招聘策略被用于WPW和WPM.Results：在25个月（2003年6月1日至2005年6月30日），773名妇女进行了筛选研究资格，630人参加（213 WPW，417 WPM）。每位参与者平均招聘时间为100分钟。在平均招募时间（WPW，90分钟; WPM，100分钟）方面，伴侣性别没有差异。印刷媒体是最有效的招募模式（每个参与者的时间：WPW为10分钟，WPM为15分钟）。招募费用因伙伴性别而异（妇女和福利组织140美元，妇女和运动110美元）。与印刷媒体有关的费用是每WPW 10美元和每WPM 20美元。通过社区活动进行招募的成本更高（每个WPW 490美元，每个WPM 275美元），但产生了更多受教育程度较低、收入较低、自认为是少数种族或族裔并自我报告残疾的女性。与WPM相比，WPW有更多的教育和更高的收入，但不太可能确定为少数民族和自我报告disability.Conclusions：有成本和样本多样性之间的权衡不同的招聘方法。印刷媒体的人均费用最低，但通过社区活动征聘确保未婚异性恋和性少数群体妇女的代表性更加多样化。
Objectives: We compared strategies and costs associated with recruiting unmarried middle-aged and older women who partner with women (WPW) and women who partner with men (WPM) into an observational study about experiences with cancer screening.Methods: We used targeted and respondent-driven sampling methods to recruit potential participants. Comparable recruitment strategies were used for WPW and WPM.Results: During 25 months (June 1, 2003, through June 30, 2005), 773 women were screened for study eligibility; 630 were enrolled (213 WPW, 417 WPM). Average staff time spent for recruitment was 100 min per participant. There were no differences by partner gender in average recruitment time (WPW, 90 min; WPM, 100 min). Print media was the most efficient recruitment mode (time per participant: 10 min for WPW, 15 min for WPM). Recruitment costs differed by partner gender ($140 for WPW, $110 for WPM). Costs associated with print media were $10 per WPW and $20 per WPM. Recruitment through community events had higher costs ($490 per WPW, $275 per WPM) but yielded more women with less education and lower incomes, who identified as a racial or ethnic minority, and self-reported a disability. Compared with WPM, WPW had more education and higher incomes, but were less likely to identify as a racial minority and self-report a disability.Conclusions: There was a trade-off between cost and sample diversity for the different recruitment methods. The per-person costs were lowest for print media, but recruitment through community events ensured a more diverse representation of unmarried heterosexual and sexual minority women.