Seq #84 Thursday, 29 June 2006
1:30 PM-3:30 PM Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre M1, Hands-on Workshop
Successful Strategies for Recruiting & Retaining Diverse Populations for Oral Health Clinical Trials

Sponsored by: Behavioral Sciences, Craniofacial Biology, Geriatric Oral Research, Prosthodontics Research
Description: This program will offer examples of successful strategies used in major clinical trials to recruit and retain large numbers of participants for long-term clinical trials. Failure to recruit and retain volunteers representing target populations threatens viability and validity. Speakers will describe their research with pregnant women, ethnically diverse children from low-income families, and older adults
Chairperson: A. KIYAK
 
1048  1:30 PM Recruitment & retention of pregnant Latina women from the U.S.-Mexico border in a community-based clinical trial
F. RAMOS-GOMEZ, University of California - Los Angeles, San Francisco, USA
  1:55 PM Unique challenges of recruiting and retaining low-income minority children for a long-term orthodontic clinical trial
G. KING, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
  2:20 PM Participant identification and recruitment: Lessons fro the VA dental diabetes study
J. JONES, Boston University, MA, USA
  2:45 PM TEETH: A successful clinical trial with diverse elders in Canada and the U.S.
M. MACENTEE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
  3:10 PM Discussion

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