Research Based Prevention Strategies

Increasing Participation in Prevention Research: Strategies

doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00288.x TOPIC: Subject participation is a critical concern for clinicians and researchers involved in prevention programs, especially for intensive interventions that require randomized assignment and lengthy youth and parent involvement. PURPOSE: This article describes details of an integrated approach used to recruit and retain at-risk high school youths, their p...

Cancer prevention strategies: use of cancer prevention research registries.

We present a model to plan a rational strategy for cancer prevention that has two main functions--assessment and intervention. The assessment function includes three main components: to identify populations at high cancer risk, which may be due to their ethnic group, occupational and environmental exposures, family history, cigarette smoking, or other risk factors; to assess exposure to known c...

School-based smoking prevention research.

Targeting Hispanic populations: future research and prevention strategies.

Minority populations face a wide variety of economic, institutional, and cultural barriers to health care. These barriers and low levels of education and income pose significant challenges for health professionals in developing cancer research and prevention-control strategies. It is suggested that specific segments of Hispanic populations fit the model of an underdeveloped country in the inter...

Latina recruitment for cancer prevention education via Community Based Participatory Research strategies.

Increasing minority participation in cancer research is an ethical and statistical necessity for gaining population-specific knowledge of cancer prevention, screening, and treatment. Locating and recruiting eligible and willing minority participants presents unique structural and cultural/linguistic challenges. Community Based Participatory Research provides a viable set of principles for facil...