Rodríguez Melanie Domenech, Rodríguez Jesús, Davis Melissa
Utah State University, USA.
Fam Process. 2006 Mar;45(1):87-100. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00082.x.
The purpose of this article is to report on the success of various recruitment activities for a behavioral observation study with Spanish-speaking Latino families in a rural community in the western United States. Recruitment activities are pivotal to research to research because the enormous impact to the quality of the sample and, thus, the quality of the answers to the questions posed by the research. Recruitment can be especially challenging for researchers working with ethnic minorities due to a historical legacy of mistreatment by researchers that has led to healthy reticence to participate in research investigations. The present research presented unique challenges in that the data collection (1) took place in a rural community, (2) sought participation of a recent immigrant population, and (3) required videotaping. Data were collected from 50 families in a western rural community. After multiple recruitment strategies were used, the research team learned that word of mouth and use of existing community resources were the most powerful recruitment strategies. However, participant reports suggest that the other recruitment strategies helped familiarize participants with the study and potentially strengthened the influence of word of mouth referrals. Important differences were found between the easy-to-recruit and the hard-to-recruit samples within this study that support engagement in multiple recruitment strategies.
本文旨在报告在美国西部一个农村社区针对讲西班牙语的拉丁裔家庭开展的一项行为观察研究中，各种招募活动所取得的成效。招募活动对于研究至关重要，因为它对样本质量有着巨大影响，进而影响研究问题答案的质量。对于研究少数民族的人员来说，招募可能尤其具有挑战性，因为研究人员过去曾有过不当对待的历史遗留问题，导致少数民族对参与研究调查保持谨慎态度。本研究面临着独特的挑战，即数据收集（1）在农村社区进行，（2）寻求新移民群体的参与，（3）需要进行录像。研究团队从美国西部一个农村社区的50个家庭收集了数据。在采用了多种招募策略后，研究团队发现口碑传播和利用现有的社区资源是最有效的招募策略。然而，参与者的报告表明，其他招募策略有助于让参与者熟悉该研究，并可能增强了口碑推荐的影响力。在本研究中，易于招募和难以招募的样本之间发现了重要差异，这支持了采用多种招募策略。
