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What Motivates Participation and Dropout Among Low‐Income Urban Families of Color in a Prevention Intervention? *
Author(s) -
Gross Deborah,
Julion Wrenetha,
Fogg Louis
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
family relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1741-3729
pISSN - 0197-6664
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2001.00246.x
Subject(s) - low income , drop out , intervention (counseling) , dropout (neural networks) , schedule , psychology , demographic economics , economics , computer science , management , machine learning , psychiatry
Low‐income urban parents of color enrolled in a parent training study were interviewed to understand what motivated their participation and what led 30% of them to subsequently drop out. Most enrolled because they wanted to be better parents. Most dropped out because of time and schedule constraints. Retention was higher when parents' motivations for participation matched program goals. Program location and qualities of the recruiter were cited most often as important; financial compensation was cited least often as important.