Recruitment strategies at the Iowa site for parent/infant pairs in a longitudinal dental caries study

Clinical Trials : Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials
Jeanette M DalyMargherita Fontana

Abstract

Recruitment of parent/infant pairs can be more difficult and challenging than recruitment of adult subjects alone as the parent has to consider themselves along with the infant to be study participants. In order to determine which recruitment methods most effectively resulted in accrual of subjects, recruitment efforts at the University of Iowa were evaluated, one of three clinical sites involved in a longitudinal prospective study of dental caries. Enrollment goals were 300 parent/infant pairs within a year. Recruitment strategies included (1) a direct mailing to potential subjects who were University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics patients and potentially met inclusion criteria; (2) face-to-face recruitment visits at medical offices; (3) provision of recruitment materials to staff at off-campus agencies and medical offices serving low-income individuals; (4) a campus-wide mass e-mail; (5) recruitment materials to daycare centers and neighborhood centers; and (6) recruitment at a children's museum. From these recruitment efforts, 515 potential participants expressed interest and were screened for this study and 348 (68%) were enrolled during an 11-month time period. The face-to-face strategy had the highest recruitment rate of ...Continue Reading

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Sep 12, 2018·Journal of Dental Research·M FontanaP McKnight
Mar 22, 2019·Journal of Primary Care & Community Health·Jeanette M DalyMargherita Fontana
Jul 14, 2017·Reviews in the Neurosciences·Stanislav KozlovAndrei Bondarenko
Mar 6, 2021·Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications·Shelley CurtanSuchitra Nelson

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