Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study
In response to recruitment difficulties experienced by the National Children’s Study, alternatives to the door-to-door recruitment method were pilot tested. This report describes outcomes, successes, and challenges of recruiting women through prenatal care providers in Benton County, Arkansas, USA....
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| author | James M. Robbins Melissa D. Bridges Elizabeth M. Childers Roseanne M. Harris Pearl A. McElfish |
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| description | In response to recruitment difficulties experienced by the National Children’s Study, alternatives to the door-to-door recruitment method were pilot tested. This report describes outcomes, successes, and challenges of recruiting women through prenatal care providers in Benton County, Arkansas, USA. Eligible women residing in 14 randomly selected geographic segments were recruited. Data were collected during pregnancy, at birth, and at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months <em>postpartum</em>. Participants were compared to non-enrolled eligible women through birth records. Of 6402 attempts to screen for address eligibility, 468 patients were potentially eligible. Of 221 eligible women approached to participate, 151 (68%) enrolled in the 21-year study. Enrolled women were similar to non-enrolled women in age, marital status, number of prenatal care visits, and gestational age and birth weight of the newborn. Women enrolled from public clinics were more likely to be Hispanic, lower educated, younger and unmarried than those enrolled from private clinics. Sampling geographic areas from historical birth records failed to produce expected equivalent number of births across segments. Enrollment of pregnant women from prenatal care providers was successful. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-aac53bc5afc64b0c90833e25fdc2ec132022-12-21T17:14:53ZengMDPI AGPediatric Reports2036-749X2036-75032015-09-017310.4081/pr.2015.60563176Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s StudyJames M. Robbins0Melissa D. Bridges1Elizabeth M. Childers2Roseanne M. Harris3Pearl A. McElfish4University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest, Fayetteville, ARUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest, Fayetteville, ARUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest, Fayetteville, ARUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest, Fayetteville, ARUniversity of Arkansas for Medical Sciences - Northwest, Fayetteville, ARIn response to recruitment difficulties experienced by the National Children’s Study, alternatives to the door-to-door recruitment method were pilot tested. This report describes outcomes, successes, and challenges of recruiting women through prenatal care providers in Benton County, Arkansas, USA. Eligible women residing in 14 randomly selected geographic segments were recruited. Data were collected during pregnancy, at birth, and at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months <em>postpartum</em>. Participants were compared to non-enrolled eligible women through birth records. Of 6402 attempts to screen for address eligibility, 468 patients were potentially eligible. Of 221 eligible women approached to participate, 151 (68%) enrolled in the 21-year study. Enrolled women were similar to non-enrolled women in age, marital status, number of prenatal care visits, and gestational age and birth weight of the newborn. Women enrolled from public clinics were more likely to be Hispanic, lower educated, younger and unmarried than those enrolled from private clinics. Sampling geographic areas from historical birth records failed to produce expected equivalent number of births across segments. Enrollment of pregnant women from prenatal care providers was successful.http://www.pagepress.org/journals/index.php/pr/article/view/6056National Children’s Studyprovider-based recruitmentprenatal caregeographic samplingretentionbirth-cohort |
| spellingShingle | James M. Robbins Melissa D. Bridges Elizabeth M. Childers Roseanne M. Harris Pearl A. McElfish Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study Pediatric Reports National Children’s Study provider-based recruitment prenatal care geographic sampling retention birth-cohort |
| title | Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study |
| title_full | Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study |
| title_fullStr | Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study |
| title_short | Lessons from prenatal care provider-based recruitment into the National Children’s Study |
| title_sort | lessons from prenatal care provider based recruitment into the national children s study |
| topic | National Children’s Study provider-based recruitment prenatal care geographic sampling retention birth-cohort |
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