Areán P A, Gallagher-Thompson D
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco 94143, USA.
J Consult Clin Psychol. 1996 Oct;64(5):875-80. doi: 10.1037//0022-006x.64.5.875.
A burgeoning literature indicates that treatment of mental disorders offsets mortality, morbidity, and poor quality of life in senior citizens. Unfortunately, ethnic minority senior citizens, who are in most need of mental health services, have not been well represented in psychosocial research. This lack of attention is due, in large part, to difficulties that may arise in recruitment and retention of older ethnic minority adults in research studies. The purpose of this article is to discuss successful methods for recruiting older ethnic minority adults into psychosocial research and to offer specific suggestions for keeping this population involved in longitudinal studies. Also included is a discussion of past research and present data from treatment studies that used the methods discussed in this article.
大量文献表明，精神障碍的治疗可降低老年人的死亡率、发病率，并改善其生活质量。不幸的是，最需要心理健康服务的少数民族老年人在社会心理研究中的代表性不足。这种缺乏关注在很大程度上是由于在招募和留住老年少数民族成年人参与研究时可能出现的困难。本文旨在探讨招募老年少数民族成年人参与社会心理研究的成功方法，并为使这一群体参与纵向研究提供具体建议。本文还讨论了过去的研究以及使用本文所讨论方法的治疗研究的当前数据。
