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| Soliciting defined populations to recruit samples of high-risk older adults | | Author(s) | Chad Boult, Lisa Boult, Lynne Morishita |
| Journal title | The Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 53A, no 5, September 1998 |
| Pages | pp M379-384 |
| Keywords | At risk ; Living in the community ; Sampling ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The effectiveness and efficiency is tested of mixed mode (mail and telephone) soliciting of a defined population as a method for recruiting a large, representative sample for a randomised trial of outpatient geriatric evaluation and management (GEM). The response rate to the posted screening questionnaire was 61.1%. Of respondents, 13.2% were eligible for the study, of whom 34.4% agreed to participate. Response rates appeared to be influenced by small financial incentives and by subjects' age, race, sex, location of residence, and use of hospitals in the previous year. Consent rates were influenced by age and sex. The final sample of 522 was representative of community high-risk respondents in racial composition, previous use of hospitals, and probability of repeated admission in the future, but was slightly younger and contained a higher percentage of men. Procedures that may enhance the success of this approach include: advance communication with members of the target population, their families and doctors; provision of medical and small financial incentives; continuous monitoring of recruitment results; and attention to subjects' needs for convenience, time, transport and reassurance. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990226206 A |
| Classmark | CA3: K4: 3Y7: 7T |
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