To get rid of health disparities and much better comprehend aging procedures in ethnically diverse populations, reliable techniques for increasing participation of minority populations in health research are required. To design an effective method that will motivate older grownups to offer for research, specifically those from variation populations, requires understanding determinants of successful recruitment and designing innovative methods to attend to recognized barriers to recruitment. We provide two kinds of resources on this subject.

CADC Recruitment Research

CADC professors and scholars have advanced recruitment methods in numerous methods through our jobs recruiting patients from health care settings and recruiting individuals from communities. We summarize our publications on the following aspects of recruitment of diverse older adults and other health disparities populations.

1. Overarching issues in hiring diverse older grownups
2. Key determinants of successful recruitment
3. Innovative strategies to hire varied populations
4. Experimental studies of the effectiveness of various approaches of recruitment
5. Feasibility of recruitment: guidelines and examples

The downloadable file consists of links to each publication. For those that are not public access, we offer a link to a PDF.

Publications on Methods of Recruitment of Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Building a Health Registry of Diverse Older Adults

One innovative recruitment technique is the development of health windows registries. CADC professors (Drs. Celia Kaplan, Tung Nguyen, and Leah Karliner) reviewed 6 publications by systematically reporting methodological aspects of establishing and carrying out health registries targeting older adults. The kinds of computer system registries include usage of social networks, and neighborhood companies.

Using a Health Registry to Recruit Diverse Older Adults

Methods of Using Social Network for Recruitment

The CADC Community Liaison and Recruitment Core examined 6 publications and report some methodological aspects of utilizing social networks for the recruitment of adults into research study studies. The selected publications focus on the use of Facebook as it is the most utilized social networks outlet.