Open AccessThe Generalizability of a Participant Registry for Minority Health Research
Author(s) -
Peter A. Lichtenberg
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the gerontologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.524
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1758-5341
pISSN - 0016-9013
DOI - 10.1093/geront/gnr021
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , gerontology , participatory action research , community based participatory research , population , medicine , african american , needs assessment , health equity , community health , family medicine , psychology , public health , environmental health , nursing , sociology , developmental psychology , social science , ethnology , anthropology
Effective strategies to recruit minority elders into health research (e.g., through churches, partnering with community gatekeepers) often involve nonrandom sampling methods. The current study has two aims: (a) to examine some new practices in recruitment of African American elders and (b) to determine the similarities and differences of the volunteers in the Healthier Black Elders (HBE) Participant Resource Pool (PRP), with a population-based community sample from the Detroit Health Needs Assessment (Chapleski, E. E. (2002). Facing the future: City of Detroit needs assessment). Detroit, MI: Wayne State University.
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