Recruitment of first-generation Latinos in a rural community: the essential nature of personal contact.

摘要: The purpose of this article is to report on the success various recruitment activities for a behavioral observation study with Spanish-speaking Latino families in rural community western United States. Recruitment are pivotal research because enormous impact quality sample and, thus, answers questions posed by research. can be especially challenging researchers working ethnic minorities due historical legacy mistreatment that has led healthy reticence participate investigations. present presented unique challenges data collection (1) took place community, (2) sought participation recent immigrant population, and (3) required videotaping. Data were collected from 50 community. After multiple strategies used, team learned word mouth use existing resources most powerful strategies. However, participant reports suggest other helped familiarize participants potentially strengthened influence referrals. Important differences found between easy-to-recruit hard-to-recruit samples within support engagement