Journal article
Reaching the "Hard-to-Reach": Recruitment of Rural-Dwelling Adults With Disabilities
Journal of transcultural nursing, Vol.31(2), pp.171-177
03/2020
DOI: 10.1177/1043659619856667
PMID: 31204586
Abstract
There are 46 million individuals living in rural America that require unique consideration for rural health research. Recruitment of research participants from disparity groups can be difficult as these groups can be hard-to-reach. In particular, strategies for reaching rural-dwelling Americans with disabilities are not well-documented. Furthermore, researchers sometimes underestimate the time and effort needed to recruit participants from hard-to-reach populations. The purpose of this article is to report the methods used to recruit 12 rural-dwelling adults with disabilities into a qualitative study.
The recruitment strategies discussed in this article were used in a grounded theory study.
Fifty percent of the sample in this study was recruited via a community gatekeeper, 33% responded to a classified advertisement, and 17% were recruited via the researchers' professional networks.
Lessons learned yield insights as to effective recruitment methods for rural dwellers as well as other hard-to-reach populations.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reaching the "Hard-to-Reach": Recruitment of Rural-Dwelling Adults With Disabilities
- Creators
- Whitney A Thurman - The University of Texas at AustinTracie C Harrison - The University of Texas at Austin
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of transcultural nursing, Vol.31(2), pp.171-177
- DOI
- 10.1177/1043659619856667
- PMID
- 31204586
- ISSN
- 1043-6596
- eISSN
- 1552-7832
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/2020
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984696566602771
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