Methods Of Recruitment

To remove health disparities and much better understand aging procedures in ethnically diverse populations, efficient strategies for increasing involvement of minority populations in health research study are needed. To design an effective technique that will older adults to offer for research study, specifically those from variation populations, requires comprehending determinants of effective recruitment and creating innovative methods to address known barriers to recruitment. We offer two kinds of resources on this subject.

CADC Recruitment Research

CADC faculty and scholars have advanced recruitment methods in several ways through our jobs hiring patients from health care settings and recruiting individuals from neighborhoods. We summarize our publications on the following aspects of recruitment of diverse older adults and other health disparities populations.

1. Overarching issues in recruiting diverse older adults
2. Key factors of successful recruitment
3. Innovative methods to recruit varied populations
4. Experimental research studies of the efficiency of different methods of recruitment
5. Feasibility of recruitment: guidelines and examples

The downloadable file includes links to each publication. For those that are not public access, we offer a link to a PDF.

Publications on Methods of Recruitment of Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Building a Health Registry of Diverse Older Adults

One ingenious recruitment strategy is the production of health windows registries. CADC professors (Drs. Celia Kaplan, Tung Nguyen, and Leah Karliner) evaluated six publications by systematically reporting methodological aspects of developing and executing health computer registries targeting older grownups. The kinds of registries include use of social media, and community companies.

Using a Health Registry to Recruit Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Using Social Network for Recruitment

The CADC Community Liaison and Recruitment Core examined six publications and report some methodological aspects of using social media for the recruitment of adults into research study studies. The selected publications focus on using Facebook as it is the most utilized social networks outlet.