TY - JOUR
T1 - Recruiting adolescents into qualitative tobacco research studies
T2 - Experiences and lessons learned
AU - McCormick, Laura K.
AU - Crawford, Myra
AU - Anderson, Robert H.
AU - Gittelsohn, Joel
AU - Kingsley, Beverly
AU - Upson, Donna
PY - 1999/3
Y1 - 1999/3
N2 - An increasing barrier to the development and implementation of effective youth smoking prevention and cessation programs involves recruiting adolescents into research studies. Even for non-intervention studies, issues of consent, confidentiality, and motivation to participate are important considerations. In 1996, 11 Prevention Research Center sites across the country conducted qualitative research using focus groups to explore ethnic differences in smoking among adolescents. The diversity in strategies used to interest, motivate, and retain potential focus group subjects provided a rich data set for information about effective strategies and challenges to recruitment. This article presents an overview of recruitment methods used in a multi-site qualitative study on adolescent tobacco use, reports on successful and less successful strategies, and provides recommendations for future recruitment efforts.
AB - An increasing barrier to the development and implementation of effective youth smoking prevention and cessation programs involves recruiting adolescents into research studies. Even for non-intervention studies, issues of consent, confidentiality, and motivation to participate are important considerations. In 1996, 11 Prevention Research Center sites across the country conducted qualitative research using focus groups to explore ethnic differences in smoking among adolescents. The diversity in strategies used to interest, motivate, and retain potential focus group subjects provided a rich data set for information about effective strategies and challenges to recruitment. This article presents an overview of recruitment methods used in a multi-site qualitative study on adolescent tobacco use, reports on successful and less successful strategies, and provides recommendations for future recruitment efforts.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1999.tb07215.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1746-1561.1999.tb07215.x
M3 - Article
C2 - 10332644
AN - SCOPUS:0033093325
SN - 0022-4391
VL - 69
SP - 95
EP - 99
JO - Journal of School Health
JF - Journal of School Health
IS - 3
ER -