Participant recruitment and retention in a pilot program to prevent weight gain in low-income overweight and obese mothers
Open Access
- 21 November 2009
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Public Health
- Vol. 9 (1) , 424
Abstract
Recruitment and retention are key functions for programs promoting nutrition and other lifestyle behavioral changes in low-income populations. This paper describes strategies for recruitment and retention and presents predictors of early (two-month post intervention) and late (eight-month post intervention) dropout (non retention) and overall retention among young, low-income overweight and obese mothers participating in a community-based randomized pilot trial called Mothers In Motion.Keywords
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