TY - JOUR
T1 - A comparison of methods and results in recruiting white and black women into reproductive studies
T2 - The MMC-PSU cooperative center on reproduction experience
AU - Sweet, Stephanie
AU - Legro, Richard S.
AU - Coney, Pon Jola
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors gratefully acknowledge the outstanding efforts of the staff and investigators in the Cooperative Center for Research in Reproduction and the RCMI Clinical Research Center at Meharry Medical College and Pennsylvania State University. This work was supported by NICHD U54 HD044315 and in part by NIH–NCRR–RCMI P20RR011792 Clinical Research Center at Meharry.
PY - 2008/7
Y1 - 2008/7
N2 - Establishing a holistic approach for the enrollment of subjects into clinical trials that includes strategies for the recruitment of non-traditional and minority populations has been an elusive task. The existence of such a design, that is understood and embraced by investigators and the target communities, would streamline the current level of commitment of time, energy and resources. This is necessary to successfully encourage individual and community participation in research studies. The Center for Research in Reproduction at Meharry set out to recruit a large number of African American women volunteers of reproductive age into clinical trials. The experience, of recruiting volunteers from the African American community for clinical trials in the Meharry Medical College/Pennsylvania State University (MMC/PSU)'s Cooperative Center for Research in Reproduction at Meharry, is presented.
AB - Establishing a holistic approach for the enrollment of subjects into clinical trials that includes strategies for the recruitment of non-traditional and minority populations has been an elusive task. The existence of such a design, that is understood and embraced by investigators and the target communities, would streamline the current level of commitment of time, energy and resources. This is necessary to successfully encourage individual and community participation in research studies. The Center for Research in Reproduction at Meharry set out to recruit a large number of African American women volunteers of reproductive age into clinical trials. The experience, of recruiting volunteers from the African American community for clinical trials in the Meharry Medical College/Pennsylvania State University (MMC/PSU)'s Cooperative Center for Research in Reproduction at Meharry, is presented.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cct.2007.11.003
DO - 10.1016/j.cct.2007.11.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 18082470
AN - SCOPUS:44049109243
SN - 1551-7144
VL - 29
SP - 478
EP - 481
JO - Contemporary Clinical Trials
JF - Contemporary Clinical Trials
IS - 4
ER -