Recruitment outcomes, challenges and lessons learned: the Healthy Communities Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Healthy Communities Study (HCS) was a national study of community programs and policies that aimed to address childhood obesity; it necessitated recruitment of a large sample of children from communities throughout the United States.

Objective

The HCS aimed to complete visits with an average of 45 children and 12 key informants from at least 120 communities, diverse with respect to region of the country, urbanicity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity and intensity of community programs and policies that aim to address childhood obesity.

Methods

Purchased address lists were utilized to select households for recruitment during Wave 1 of the study, and recruitment of families through schools was employed for Wave 2.

Results

The HCS successfully o

SUBMITTER: Sagatov RDF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6424514 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature