Recruitment of Community College Students Into a Web-Assisted Tobacco Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

United States college students, particularly those attending community colleges, have higher smoking rates than the national average. Recruitment of such smokers into research studies has not been studied in depth, despite a moderate amount information on study recruitment success with smokers from traditional four-year colleges. Recruitment channels and success are evolving as technology evolves, so it is important to understand how to best target, implement, and evaluate recruitment strategies.

Objective

The aim of this paper is to both qualitatively and quantitatively explore recruitment channels (eg, mass email, in-person referral, posted materials) and their success with enrollment into a Web-Assisted Tobacco Intervention study in this priority population of

SUBMITTER: McIntosh S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5440736 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature