Retention strategies among those on community supervision in the South: Lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Cohort studies must implement effective retention strategies to produce internally valid and generalizable results. Ensuring all study participants are retained, particularly those involved in the criminal legal system, ensures study findings and future interventions will be relevant to this group, who are often lost to follow-up: critical to achieving health equity. Our objective was to characterize retention strategies and describe overall retention among an 18-month longitudinal cohort study of persons on community supervision prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

We implemented various retention strategy best-practices (e.g., multiple forms of locator information, training study staff on rapport building, study-branded items). During the COVID-19

SUBMITTER: Uhrig Castonguay BJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10075476 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature