Lessons Learned From a Food Environment Intervention Study: Recruitment and Retention of Participants in Disadvantaged Urban Inner-City Neighborhoods
Lessons Learned From a Food Environment Intervention Study: Recruitment and Retention of Participants in Disadvantaged Urban Inner-City Neighborhoods
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DOI：
10.1177/1090198117740612
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Muhajarine, Nazeem
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作者：
Engler-Stringer, Rachel;Schaefer, Joelle;Muhajarine, Nazeem
日益严重的健康不平等导致了对人口健康干预研究的呼吁，这有助于改善边缘人群的健康，但与这些社区进行研究可能具有挑战性。当研究的目的是检查和了解以难以接触或被边缘化为特征的人群中的一个健康方面时，招募技术似乎对纵向研究的参与和样本保留有重大影响。我们对在加拿大一个中等规模城市的低收入市中心社区进行的Good Food，Healthy Family研究中使用的招募和保留技术进行了审查和评论；我们希望这将为类似人群中的人口健康干预研究提供招募和保留方法。希望参与有可能改善健康公平的人口健康干预措施的研究人员有责任以尊重的方式收集信息。
Growing health inequities have led to calls for population health intervention research that can contribute to improving the health of marginalized populations, but conducting research with these communities can be challenging. When research aims to examine and understand an aspect of health in a population characterized as hard-to-reach or marginalized, recruitment techniques appear to have a significant impact on participation and sample retention in longitudinal studies. We examine and comment on the recruitment and retention techniques used in the Good Food, Healthy Families study conducted in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in a midsized Canadian city; we hope that this will inform recruitment and retention approaches for population health intervention studies in similar populations. It is a responsibility of researchers who wish to engage with population health interventions that have the potential to improve health equity to gather information in ways that are respectful.