Multilevel Provider-Based Sampling for Recruitment of Pregnant Women and Mother-Newborn Dyads.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In 2010, the National Children's Study launched 3 alternative recruitment methods to test possible improvements in efficiency compared with traditional household-based recruitment and participant enrollment. In 2012, a fourth method, provider-based sampling (PBS), tested a probability-based sampling of prenatal provider locations supplemented by a second cohort of neonates born at a convenience sample of maternity hospitals.

Methods

From a sampling frame of 472 prenatal care provider locations and 59 maternity hospitals, 49 provider and 7 hospital locations within or just outside 3 counties participated in study recruitment. During first prenatal care visits or immediately postdelivery at these locations, face-to-face contact was used to screen and recruit eligible

SUBMITTER: McLaughlin TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4878109 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature