Recruiting Low Income and Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adolescents for Focus Groups

The use of focus groups to plan poison prevention education programs for low-income populations.

Children younger than 5 are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings. Children in low-income situations are particularly vulnerable for exposures to potential poisons. Focus groups were conducted at a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program located in a large urban public hospital in New York City to gain information from low-income parents of young children about real and perceived bar...

Hypertension in Low-Income Adolescents

Disadvantaged adolescents are at higher risk for undiagnosed and untreated obesity and hypertension. Using nurse-measured weight, height, and blood pressure (BP) as well as self-reported age and activity/lifestyle behaviors, we assessed the prevalence of obesity and hypertension in 573 adolescent patients aged 13.0 to 17.9 years (females: n = 267, 46.6%; males: n = 306, 53.4%) from a clinic ser...

Low-income neighborhood barriers and resources for adolescents' physical activity.

PURPOSE To investigate factors of low-income neighborhoods and households on physical activity with a sample of adolescents from low-income neighborhoods. METHODS Middle-school-aged youth (n = 74) from a low-income neighborhood completed self-report surveys. Measures include vigorous exercise frequency, neighborhood hazards, after-school time demands, availability of facilities, quality of fa...

Recruiting and Retaining a More Diverse Workforce

Recruiting Diverse Smokers: Enrollment Yields and Cost

To help tobacco control research better include vulnerable populations, we sought to identify effective ways to recruit diverse smokers. In 2014-2015, we recruited 2149 adult cigarette smokers in California and North Carolina, United States, to participate in a randomized trial of pictorial cigarette pack warnings. The most effective means of recruiting smokers were the classified advertising w...