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Recruiting and Retaining High-Risk Adolescents into Family-Based HIV Prevention Intervention Research

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies for a longitudinal, family-based HIV prevention intervention study targeting adolescents in psychiatric care by (1) determining consent rate (recruitment), rate of participation at the first intervention session (retention), and follow-up attendance rate (retention); and (2) examining socio-demographic factors, family-level processes, sexual risk-related indices, and intervention factors (i.e., treatment arm) associated with study retention. Only one-third of the families contacted ultimately enrolled in the study. 81% of those enrolled participated in the workshop and 72% attended the booster sessions with no significant differences between families on any variable based on attendance. Retention over 1 year was 85% and did not differ by treatment arm. Strategies employed were successful at retaining families once they were enrolled. Findings highlight barriers to enrollment for adolescents in psychiatric care and suggest that it may be critical to integrate HIV prevention programs within community-based mental health services in order to counteract recruitment challenges.

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  1. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Illinois at Chicago, 820 S. Wood St., M/C 808, Chicago, IL, 60612, USA

    Chisina T. Kapungu

  2. University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

    Carla M. Nappi

  3. Office of Diversity, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2620 University Hall, 601 South Morgan Street, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA

    Charu Thakral

  4. Argosy University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Steven A. Miller

  5. Department of Psychiatry, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1747 W. Roosevelt Rd, Chicago, IL, 60608, USA

    Catharine Devlin, Emily Hasselquist, Gloria Coleman, Chinmayee Barve & Geri Donenberg

  6. Department of Psychology, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL, USA

    Cami McBride

  7. Illinois State University, Normal, IL, USA

    Derek Drozd

  8. School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph DiClemente

  9. Department of Psychiatry, Rhode Island Hospital and the Alpert School of Medicine of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    Larry Brown

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Kapungu, C.T., Nappi, C.M., Thakral, C. et al. Recruiting and Retaining High-Risk Adolescents into Family-Based HIV Prevention Intervention Research. J Child Fam Stud 21, 578–588 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-011-9510-z

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