Recruiting foreign-born individuals who have sought an abortion in the United States: Lessons from a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT: Although studies have documented challenges people encounter when attempting to access abortion care in the United States, there is little research on the perspectives and experiences of foreign-born individuals, who may encounter unique barriers to accessing care. Since lack of data may be due to difficulty recruiting this population, we explored the feasibility of using social media to recruit foreign-born individuals who have sought an abortion into interviews to share their abortion experiences. Our target population was limited to English and Spanish-speakers due to budget constraints. As this recruitment method was unsuccessful, we attempted to recruit our target population through the crowdsourcing website, Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk) to take a one-time survey on their abortion e

SUBMITTER: Zuniga C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10151930 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature