Oregon Social Learning Center, 10 Shelton McMurphey Blvd., Eugene, OR 97401, USA.
Prev Sci. 2012 Feb;13(1):15-26. doi: 10.1007/s11121-011-0239-0.
The development and testing of culturally competent interventions relies on the recruitment and retention of ethnic minority populations. Minority immigrants are a population of keen interest given their widespread growth, needs, and contributions to communities in which they settle, and particularly recent immigrants from Mexico and Central and South American countries. However, recruitment and retention strategies for entirely immigrant samples are rarely discussed in the literature. The current article describes lessons learned from two family-focused longitudinal prevention research studies of Latino immigrants in Oregon-the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study (ALAS) and the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project-II (LYFE-II). Social, legal, economic, and political contexts are considered that shape Latino immigrants' experiences in their home countries as well as in the United States. The implications of these contexts for effective recruitment and retention strategies are discussed.
文化能力干预措施的开发和测试依赖于少数民族人群的招募和保留。少数民族移民是一个非常关注的群体，因为他们在其定居的社区中广泛增长，有需求，并做出贡献，特别是来自墨西哥以及中美洲和南美洲国家的新移民。然而，文献中很少讨论针对完全移民样本的招募和保留策略。本文描述了两项针对俄勒冈州拉丁裔移民的以家庭为中心的纵向预防研究的经验教训——拉丁裔青少年同化研究（ALAS）和拉丁裔青年和家庭赋权项目 II（LYFE-II）。考虑了塑造拉丁裔移民在母国和美国经历的社会、法律、经济和政治背景。讨论了这些背景对有效招募和保留策略的影响。
