Research with Youth of Color in Low-Income Communities: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Participants

Autor/inn/en	Mendelson, Tamar; Sheridan, Steven C.; Clary, Laura K.
Titel	Research with Youth of Color in Low-Income Communities: Strategies for Recruiting and Retaining Participants
Quelle	17 (2020), S.1110-1118 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1551-7411
Schlagwörter	Low Income Groups; Urban Youth; Minority Group Students; Recruitment; Persistence; Research Methodology; Gender Differences; Racial Differences; Ethnicity; Attrition (Research Studies); College School Cooperation; Mental Health; Wellness; Health Promotion; Intervention; Grade 8; Early Adolescents; Middle School Students; Public Schools; Grade 9; School Community Relationship; Maryland (Baltimore) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt; Jugend; Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Ausdauer; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Geschlechterkonflikt; Rassenunterschied; Ethnizität; Psychohygiene; Well being; Well-being; Wohlbefinden; Gesundheitsfürsorge; Gesundheitshilfe; Reihenuntersuchung; School year 08; 8. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 08; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09
Abstract	Background: Youth of color from low-income urban communities are crucial participants in research, as their involvement can shape effective, culturally responsive interventions and policy to promote youth health and well-being. These young people, however, are an often-neglected research population, due in part to perceived challenges associated with their inclusion as well as marginalized communities' justifiable mistrust of research. Objectives: Based on our experience conducting a school-based randomized intervention trial in Baltimore, Maryland, we present strategies for conducting research with low-income, urban youth of color. We discuss strategies in three domains: university-community partnership development, participant recruitment, and participant retention. Methods: We reviewed partnership building and recruitment strategies employed by our team across four years of trial implementation and evaluated success of participant retention at our final survey timepoint. Results: Partnership building was facilitated by selection of a study design that maximized benefits for all participants, promotion of capacity building at partner institutions, and attention to research staff hiring and training practices. Effective study recruitment strategies included personal contact with parents and close cooperation between school personnel and study staff. Providing incentives and collecting multiple types of participant contact information contributed to increased retention rates. On average, those who participated in the final survey timepoint were less likely to be male and Latinx and exhibited more favorable baseline mental health than those who did not, suggesting differential attrition based on youth characteristics. Conclusions: Lessons learned from this school-based trial can be applied more broadly to research with low-income urban youth of color. Researchers should strive to maximize scientific rigor, minimize harm to vulnerable adolescents and their communities, promote positive research experiences for young people, and provide concrete benefits to those who participate. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01