Recruitment and Cardiovascular Risk Characteristics of African American and Caucasian Midlife Women
作者:
JoEllen Wilbur,
Arlene Miller,
Peggy Chandler,
期刊:
The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing
(OVID Available online 2001)
卷期:
Volume 15,
issue 3
页码: 88-104
ISSN:0889-4655
年代: 2001
出版商: OVID
关键词: cardiovascular risks;physical activity;recruitment;women's health
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
This article describes the use of multiple strategies to recruit women, particularly African American women, into a home-based, moderate-intensity walking intervention and compares African American to Caucasian midlife women on cardiovascular risk characteristics at entry into the program. One hundred seventy-three women aged 45 to 65 years were recruited using a variety of strategies. Baseline findings showed that, on average, the women in the program had modifiable cardiovascular risk factors with proportionately more African American women than Caucasian women having hypertension and low physical fitness. The findings also illustrate the importance of using multiple recruitment strategies to encourage midlife African American and Caucasian women to participate in intervention trials.
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