Supporting Recruitment and Retention of Young African-American and Hispanic Fathers in Community-Based Parenting Interventions Research

Bibliographic Data

ID2501415
AuthorsCristina Mogro-Wilson, Cristina Mogro‐wilson (0000-0001-7903-4446, University of Connecticut, corresponding author), Crystal Hayes, Crystal M Hayes (0000-0001-8888-4522, University of Connecticut), Alysse Melville Loomis (0000-0001-9909-8092, University of Connecticut), Aubri Drake (0000-0002-7524-577X, University of Connecticut), Melanie Martin-Peele (University of Connecticut), Judith Fifield (University of Connecticut)
Year2019
Volume18
Issue4
Pages1068-1084
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Social Work (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1527-8565 • E-ISSN: 2331-4125
PublisherIU Indianapolis University Library (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18060/22293
OpenAlexW2911815144
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

Few studies to date have provided strategies for maintaining low rates of attrition when conducting longitudinal, epidemiological, or community-based research with young, minority, urban fathers. This paper highlights lessons learned from a 5-year randomized controlled trial of a fatherhood intervention that designed and implemented state-of-the-art and culturally relevant recruitment and retention methods with 348 young fathers ages 15 to 25. Qualitative findings are drawn from interviews with fathers who had been enrolled in the fatherhood intervention (n=10). While traditional recruitment and retention methods, such as incentives, were employed in this study, non-traditional methods were used as well, such as intensive community outreach, staff relationship development, recruiting specialists, and flexible contact methods. These methods were found to be helpful to young fathers in the study. Future research should incorporate, and further study, such non-traditional methods for recruiting young, minority, urban fathers into studies of parenting programs, including randomized control trials, to improve services for this underserved population

Attrition · Environmental health · Incentive · Outreach · Political science · Population · Psychological intervention · Qualitative research · Randomized controlled trial · Social science · Sociology · Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Family and Disability Support Research · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology

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