Recruiting Adolescents into Qualitative Tobacco Research Studies: Experiences and Lessons Learned
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ABSTRACT: 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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- Authors
- McCormick, L. K., Crawford, M., Anderson, R. H., Gittelsohn, J., Kingsley, B., & Upson, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Georgia (US)
- University of Alabama (US)
- West Virginia University (US)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Oklahoma (US)
- University of New Mexico (US)
- Corresponding author
- McCormick, Laura K.
- ORCID
- Gittelsohn, Joel
- Venue
- Journal of School Health
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1999-03
- Volume
- 69
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 95-99
- ISSN
- 0022-4391 (ISSN-L)
- 1746-1561
- OpenAlex
- W2027785395
- Cited by
- 69
- References
- 9
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 1
- FWCI
- 1.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of School Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Public Health Service (48CCU 309674, 48/CCU 209663, 48/CCU 009654)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Ethics in Clinical Research
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Focus Groups and Qualitative Methods
- Keywords
- tobacco use, youth smoking prevention, research participation motivation, confidentiality, informed consent, focus groups
- MeSH terms
- Smoking Prevention, Adolescent, Adult, Advertising, Child, Humans, Informed Consent, Male, Research Design, Reward, United States, Multicenter Studies as Topic, Focus Groups, Patient Selection
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