Recruiting and Retaining People With Disabilities for Qualitative Health Research: Challenges and Solutions.

ABSTRACT: There are 56.7 million people with disabilities (PWD) living in the United States; yet, PWD are significantly underrepresented in health research. Even when researchers purposively seek to include PWD in studies, challenges emerge related to recruitment and retention, leading to inadequate representation and surface understandings of this population. This in turn contributes to the perpetuation of implicit and explicit health disparities that are already experienced by this population. Grounded within a qualitative, community-based participatory health research framework, we highlight challenges associated with recruiting and retaining PWD in health research, including a critical analysis of the research enterprise structure, how this disables accessible research practices for PWD, and lea

SUBMITTER: Banas JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11487479 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature