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Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth

BACKGROUND: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth (Intervention INC) is an innovative, web-based interactive comic tool for dietary self-management, which aims to decrease obesity risk among urban minority preadolescents. The feasibility and acceptability of Intervention INC was asse...

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Autores principales: DeFrank, Grisselle, Singh, Sarina, Mateo, Katrina F., Harrison, Laura, Rosenthal, Alyson, Gorman, Allison, Leung, May May
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0492-8
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author DeFrank, Grisselle
Singh, Sarina
Mateo, Katrina F.
Harrison, Laura
Rosenthal, Alyson
Gorman, Allison
Leung, May May
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Singh, Sarina
Mateo, Katrina F.
Harrison, Laura
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description BACKGROUND: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth (Intervention INC) is an innovative, web-based interactive comic tool for dietary self-management, which aims to decrease obesity risk among urban minority preadolescents. The feasibility and acceptability of Intervention INC was assessed by implementing a two-group randomized pilot study. To date, intervention studies have typically faced various barriers in recruiting and retaining study participants. The purpose of this paper is to describe recruitment and retention activities from this study and in particular, discuss challenges faced, strategies implemented, and lessons learned. METHODS: Black/AA and Latino children (ages 9–12 years) and their parent/guardian were recruited from East Harlem/Harlem, New York. Recruitment strategies included flyering in the community, having a convenient study location, providing participation incentives, and partnering with community/school-based organizations. Potential participants were screened for eligibility; enrollees completed online surveys and interviews at baseline (T1), intervention midpoint (T2), intervention end (T3), and 3-months post-intervention (T4). Retention strategies included flexible scheduling, reminder calls/texts, incremental compensation, and consistent study staff. RESULTS: Eighty-nine enrolled dyads completed a T1 visit (August to November 2017) and were randomized to the experimental (E, n = 45) or comparison (C, n = 44) group. Enrolled dyads learned about the study through community events (39%), community flyering (34%), friend/referral (15%), or a community clinic partner (12%). T1 child demographics were mean age = 10.4 ± 1.0 years, 61% female, 62% Black and 42% Latino, and 51% overweight/obese; parent demographics were mean age = 30.8 ± 8.9 years, 94% female, and 55% Black and 45% Latino. Survey completion rates by dyad were high throughout the study: T2, 87%; T3, 89%; and T4, 84%. Average data collection per session was 65 min. Parents at T4 (n = 76) felt they received enough study information (97%) and that their questions were answered properly (80%). Eighty-one percent of children at T4 (n = 75) were very satisfied/extremely satisfied with how study staff communicated and interacted with them. CONCLUSION: Effective recruitment strategies consisted of community events and flyering, while a variety of retention strategies were also used to successfully engage urban Black/AA and Latino families in this study. Though our findings are limited to only Latino and Black families in low-income neighborhoods, we have identified successful strategies for this specific high-risk population and potentially similar others. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03165474, registered 15 May 2017
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spelling pubmed-67274972019-09-12 Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth DeFrank, Grisselle Singh, Sarina Mateo, Katrina F. Harrison, Laura Rosenthal, Alyson Gorman, Allison Leung, May May Pilot Feasibility Stud Research BACKGROUND: Interactive Nutrition Comics for Urban Minority Youth (Intervention INC) is an innovative, web-based interactive comic tool for dietary self-management, which aims to decrease obesity risk among urban minority preadolescents. The feasibility and acceptability of Intervention INC was assessed by implementing a two-group randomized pilot study. To date, intervention studies have typically faced various barriers in recruiting and retaining study participants. The purpose of this paper is to describe recruitment and retention activities from this study and in particular, discuss challenges faced, strategies implemented, and lessons learned. METHODS: Black/AA and Latino children (ages 9–12 years) and their parent/guardian were recruited from East Harlem/Harlem, New York. Recruitment strategies included flyering in the community, having a convenient study location, providing participation incentives, and partnering with community/school-based organizations. Potential participants were screened for eligibility; enrollees completed online surveys and interviews at baseline (T1), intervention midpoint (T2), intervention end (T3), and 3-months post-intervention (T4). Retention strategies included flexible scheduling, reminder calls/texts, incremental compensation, and consistent study staff. RESULTS: Eighty-nine enrolled dyads completed a T1 visit (August to November 2017) and were randomized to the experimental (E, n = 45) or comparison (C, n = 44) group. Enrolled dyads learned about the study through community events (39%), community flyering (34%), friend/referral (15%), or a community clinic partner (12%). T1 child demographics were mean age = 10.4 ± 1.0 years, 61% female, 62% Black and 42% Latino, and 51% overweight/obese; parent demographics were mean age = 30.8 ± 8.9 years, 94% female, and 55% Black and 45% Latino. Survey completion rates by dyad were high throughout the study: T2, 87%; T3, 89%; and T4, 84%. Average data collection per session was 65 min. Parents at T4 (n = 76) felt they received enough study information (97%) and that their questions were answered properly (80%). Eighty-one percent of children at T4 (n = 75) were very satisfied/extremely satisfied with how study staff communicated and interacted with them. CONCLUSION: Effective recruitment strategies consisted of community events and flyering, while a variety of retention strategies were also used to successfully engage urban Black/AA and Latino families in this study. Though our findings are limited to only Latino and Black families in low-income neighborhoods, we have identified successful strategies for this specific high-risk population and potentially similar others. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03165474, registered 15 May 2017 BioMed Central 2019-09-05 /pmc/articles/PMC6727497/ /pubmed/31516726 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0492-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Singh, Sarina
Mateo, Katrina F.
Harrison, Laura
Rosenthal, Alyson
Gorman, Allison
Leung, May May
Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth
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title_full_unstemmed Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth
title_short Key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth
title_sort key recruitment and retention strategies for a pilot web-based intervention to decrease obesity risk among minority youth
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6727497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516726
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40814-019-0492-8
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