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Articles: Increasing Participation in Prevention Research: Strategies for Youths, Parents, and Schools

Year: 2011

Type: review

Abstract: 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 parents, and high schools to two different comprehensive, "indicated" prevention programs. SOURCES USED: Parent and youth recruitment and retention data for the two studies is provided in support of the approach described. A coordinated, multilevel approach, organized around cross-cutting issues, is described in detail as a response to the challenges of including vulnerable populations in intervention research. CONCLUSION: Methods are relevant to nurse clinicians who deliver prevention programs, and are important to clinical research that relies upon adequate participation in research programs.

Source: Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing

DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6171.2011.00288.x

Authors: Carole Hooven, Elaine Walsh, Mayumi Willgerodt, Amy Salazar

Institution: University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Ethics in Clinical Research

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Nursing Research