Effectiveness of Recruitment Strategies of Latino Smokers: Secondary Analysis of a Mobile Health Smoking Cessation Randomized Clinical Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Latinos remain disproportionately underrepresented in clinical trials, comprising only 2%-3% of research participants. In order to address health disparities, it is critically important to increase enrollment of Latino smokers in smoking cessation trials. There is limited research examining effective recruitment strategies for this population.

Objective

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of direct versus mass and high- versus low-effort recruitment strategies on recruitment and retention of Latino smokers to a randomized smoking cessation trial. We also examine how the type of recruitment might have influenced the characteristics of enrolled participants.

Methods

Latino smokers were enrolled into Decídetexto from 4 states-New Jersey,

SUBMITTER: Arana-Chicas E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9274407 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature