<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Few empirical studies have evaluated the efficiency of recruitment methods to recruit non- English-speaking research participants. We attempt to fill this research gap by conducting a systematic evaluation using recruitment data from a large cognitive testing study that pretested the translations of the American Community Survey. In our study we contacted 1,084 Chinese and Korean speakers to identify those who spoke little or no English. We measured the efficiency of the recruitment methods (newspaper advertisements, flyers, online communication, and word of mouth) using four criteria: time spent, outreach capacity, screener completion, and eligibility rate. We also examined differences in recruitment efficiencies by recruiters and sublanguage groups. Among the recruitment methods examined, newspaper advertisements were most efficient in reaching a larger number of Asians while using the least amount of recruiters’ time. For recruiting non-English speakers, word of mouth by recruiters with strong ties to the ethnic community worked best.</p></abstract>

Few empirical studies have evaluated the efficiency of recruitment methods to recruit non- English-speaking research participants. We attempt to fill this research gap by conducting a systematic evaluation using recruitment data from a large cognitive testing study that pretested the translations of the American Community Survey. In our study we contacted 1,084 Chinese and Korean speakers to identify those who spoke little or no English. We measured the efficiency of the recruitment methods (newspaper advertisements, flyers, online communication, and word of mouth) using four criteria: time spent, outreach capacity, screener completion, and eligibility rate. We also examined differences in recruitment efficiencies by recruiters and sublanguage groups. Among the recruitment methods examined, newspaper advertisements were most efficient in reaching a larger number of Asians while using the least amount of recruiters’ time. For recruiting non-English speakers, word of mouth by recruiters with strong ties to the ethnic community worked best.

Evaluating the Efficiency of Methods to Recruit Asian Research Participants

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Few empirical studies have evaluated the efficiency of recruitment methods to recruit non- English-speaking research participants. We attempt to fill this...

Evaluating the Efficiency of Methods to Recruit Asian Research Participants

Published Online: May 08, 2014

Page range: 335 - 354

Received: Feb 01, 2013

Accepted: Nov 01, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0020

Keywords
Community-based recruitment, recruitment efficiency, cognitive interview

© by Hyunjoo Park

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Evaluating the Efficiency of Methods to Recruit Asian Research Participants

Published Online: May 08, 2014

Page range: 335 - 354

Received: Feb 01, 2013

Accepted: Nov 01, 2013

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jos-2014-0020

KeywordsCommunity-based recruitment, recruitment efficiency, cognitive interview

© by Hyunjoo Park

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords
Community-based recruitment, recruitment efficiency, cognitive interview