Overview
In 2018, NIA’s National Advisory Council on Aging prioritized the need to address recruitment and retention of diverse study populations saying, “Both clinical trials and natural history studies have yet to demonstrate anywhere near adequate representation of diverse cohorts. A complete study of a disease state requires the inclusion of diverse cohorts of research participants in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, age, and status of disease.”
In this workshop,
- Experts in recruiting and retaining Black/African American, Asian, Native, Arab, and Latino elder populations into health research will share strategies for overcoming barriers to recruitment, encouraging retention, and addressing concerns about the collection of biospecimens.
- Participants will learn strategies for Internet-based, in-person, and print-based recruitment and discuss approaches to study design and implementation that maximize retention of minority elder study participants over time, and
- NIA representatives will share the Institute’s National Strategy of Recruitment, together with recently developed recruitment tools.
Learning Objectives
- To identify successful strategies for supporting ongoing retention of minority elders in health research.
- To identify successful strategies and NIA tools for supporting engagement of minority elders in health research.
- To describe the major barriers to participation in health research for minority elders of various race/ethnicities.