A Personal Touch: The Most Important Strategy for Recruiting Latino Research Participants

People from non-White racial groups and other underserved populations, including Latinos, are frequently reluctant to participate in research. Yet their participation into research is foundational to producing information that researchers and health care providers need to address health disparities....

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Published in:Journal of transcultural nursing 2017-07, Vol.28 (4), p.342-347
Main Authors: García, Alexandra A., Zuñiga, Julie A., Lagon, Czarina
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans - psychology
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Communication
Diabetes
Fear - psychology
Humans
Mexican Americans - psychology
Mexican Americans - statistics & numerical data
Nursing
Patient Selection
Personnel Selection - methods
Personnel Selection - standards
Research Design
Researcher-Subject Relations - psychology
Social Class
Transcultural nursing
Trust - psychology
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Summary:People from non-White racial groups and other underserved populations, including Latinos, are frequently reluctant to participate in research. Yet their participation into research is foundational to producing information that researchers and health care providers need to address health disparities. The purpose of this article is to describe challenges we have encountered along with culturally relevant strategies we used in five research studies to recruit Mexican American participants from community settings, some of whom were also of low socioeconomic status. We found that the most effective recruitment strategies reflect the common cultural values of personalismo, simpátia, confianza, respeto, and familismo.
ISSN:1043-6596
1552-7832
DOI:10.1177/1043659616644958