Recruitment strategies in a prospective longitudinal family study on parents with obesity and their toddlers
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- 作者：Sarah Bergmann ; Anja Keitel-Korndörfer ; Katharina Herfurth-Majstorovic…
- 关键词：Family study ; Recruitment ; Cost effectiveness ; Obesity ; Corporate design ; Child ; Toddler
- 刊名：BMC Public Health
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：605KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Medicine/Public Health, general; Epidemiology; Environmental Health; Biostatistics; Vaccine;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1471-2458
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundRecruitment of participants with obesity is a real challenge. To reduce time and costs in similar projects, we investigated various recruiting strategies used in a longitudinal family study with respect to their enrolment yield and cost effectiveness. Results may help other research groups to optimize their recruitment strategies.