Journal article
Recruiting and Retaining Mobile Young Injection Drug Users in a Longitudinal Study
Substance use & misuse, v 45(5), pp 684-699
Apr 2010
PMID: 20222779
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Abstract
Longitudinal studies that research homeless persons or transient drug users face particular challenges in retaining subjects. Between 2005 and 2006, 101 mobile young injection drug users were recruited in Los Angeles into a 2-year longitudinal study. Several features of ethnographic methodology, including fieldwork and qualitative interviews, and modifications to the original design, such as toll-free calls routed directly to ethnographer cell phones and wiring incentive payments, resulted in retention of 78% of subjects for the first follow-up interview. Longitudinal studies that are flexible and based upon qualitative methodologies are more likely to retain mobile subjects while also uncovering emergent research findings.
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- Title
- Recruiting and Retaining Mobile Young Injection Drug Users in a Longitudinal Study
- Creators
- Stephen E Lankenau - Drexel University, School of Public Health, Department of Community Health and Prevention, 1505 Race Street, 11th floor, Philadelphia, PA 19102Bill Sanders - California State University, Los Angeles, School of Criminal Justice and Criminalistics, 5151 State University Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90032Dodi Hathazi - University of Maryland, School of Nursing, 655 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201Jennifer Jackson Bloom - Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Saban Research Institute, Community, Health Outcomes, and Intervention Research Program, 6430 Sunset Boulevard, Suite 1500, Los Angeles, CA 90028
- Publication Details
- Substance use & misuse, v 45(5), pp 684-699
- Grant note
- R01 DA015631-04 || DA / National Institute on Drug Abuse : NIDA R01 DA015631-01A1 || DA / National Institute on Drug Abuse : NIDA R01 DA015631-05 || DA / National Institute on Drug Abuse : NIDA R01 DA015631-03 || DA / National Institute on Drug Abuse : NIDA R01 DA015631-02 || DA / National Institute on Drug Abuse : NIDA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000275470800004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-77949472738
- Other Identifier
- 991014877761204721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Psychiatry
- Psychology
- Substance Abuse