RESOURCE CORE 4: RECRUITMENT CORE

招聘，坚持和保留（FAR）核心（RC 4）的克劳德D。佛罗里达大学（UF）的胡椒老年美国人独立中心（OAIC）的任务是确保（a）稳定的预期参与者流向支持的研究，（B）参与者在尊重方面是多样化和异质的 残疾状况和种族/民族，以及（c）附属研究者（特别是初级学者）可以获得有关可行性，参与者可用性和与潜在参与者沟通的策略的必要信息。RC 4的一个关键目标是支持研究结果的普遍性和外部效度。为了确保在其研究中充分代表功能不良的老年人，以增强RC 4，调查人员已经开发了大量的经验，招募老年人，特别是少数民族，无论是在盖恩斯维尔/阿拉丘亚县地区，并在更广泛的中北部佛罗里达集水区的中心。征聘核心将直接提供支助征聘的服务，包括制订和执行征聘战略、监测和报告征聘进展情况以及编制征聘材料。招募核心还将帮助OAlC附属研究和研究人员，特别是初级学者，制定监测和改善参与者在临床研究中的依从性和保留率的策略。专门核心的存在也有利于妇女、少数民族和残疾老年人的入学，所有这些人往往都是残疾人。 在观察性和干预性研究中代表性不足。招聘核心与RCI合作，特别是（临床翻译资源核心-评估每个研究的实时进展，并确保招募，筛选和数据采集/随机化的无缝集成），RC 3（生物统计学和数据管理核心-确保已进行功效分析，以及招募目标和入选/入组标准是可行的;此外，RC 4通过实时参与者跟踪支持核心，包括线索来源和招聘效率。RC 4与RCDC（研究职业发展核心）和PESC（试点和探索性研究核心）结盟，以确保新研究具有可行和成功的招募计划。RC 4不断评估战略的成功，以促进参与，保留和遵守OAlC相关的研究，并寻求确定最有效和最高效的RAR策略。在招聘中心提供的服务和进行的研究中，特别强调少数民族和身体残疾者参与老龄化研究。

The Recruitment, Adherence and Retention (FAR) Core (RC4) of the Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center (OAIC) at the University of Florida (UF) is tasked with ensuring (a) a steady flow of prospective participants to supported studies, (b) that participants are diverse and heterogeneous with respect to disability status and race/ethnicity, and (c) that affiliated investigators (especially junior scholars) have access to necessary information regarding feasibility, participant availability, and strategies for communicating with prospective participants. A key goal of the RC4 is to support the generalizability and external validity of study flndings. To ensure adequate representation of poorly functioning older persons in its studies, that enhance the RC4, investigators have developed substantial experience with the recruitment of older adults, especially minorities, both in the Gainesville/Alachua County region, and in the more general North Central Florida catchment area of the center. The Recruitment Core will directly provide services to support recruitment, including development and implementation of recruitment strategies, monitoring and reporting recruitment progress, and development of recruitment materials. The Recruitment Core will also help OAlC affiliated studies and investigators, especially Junior Scholars, to develop strategies for monitoring and improving participants' adherence and retention in clinical research studies. The presence of a dedicated core also facilitates enrollment of women, ethnic minorities, and elders with disabilities, all of whom have often been under-represented in both observational and intervention studies. The Recruitment Core works in partnership, particularity, with RCI (Clinical Translational Resource Core�to evaluate the real-time progress of each study, and to ensure seamless integration of recruitment, screening, and data acquisition/randomization), RC3 (Biostatistics and Data Management Core�to ensure that power analyses have been conducted, and that recruitment targets and inclusion/enrollment criteria are feasible; in addition, RC4 supports the core with real-time participant tracking, including sources of leads and recruitment efficiency). RC4 is allied with RCDC (Research Career Development Core) and PESC (Pilot and Exploratory Studies Core) to ensure that new studies have feasible and successful recruitment plans. RC4 continuously evaluates the success of strategies to facilitate participation, retention and adherence in OAlC-associated research, and seeks to identify the most effective and efficient RAR strategies. In both the services provided and studies conducted by the Recruitment Core, a particular emphasis is on the participation of ethnic minorities and persons with physical disability into research on aging.