Erika Montanaro1, Sarah W Feldstein Ewing2, Angela D Bryan3. 1. a Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS , Yale University , New Haven , Connecticut , USA. 2. b Department of Psychiatry , University of New Mexico , Albuquerque , New Mexico , USA. 3. c Department of Psychology and Neuroscience , The University of Colorado at Boulder , Boulder , Colorado , USA.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Low retention rates are a problem for longitudinal studies involving adolescents, and this is particularly true for justice-involved youth. METHODS: This study evaluates (1) strategies used to retain high-risk adolescents participating in a longitudinal research project; (2) the extent to which retention efforts were different in a justice-involved versus a non-justice-involved (school-based) sample; and (3) differential characteristics of justice-involved versus school-based adolescents that might explain differences in retention difficulty. RESULTS: Compared with the school-based youth, justice-involved youth required significantly more phone calls to be successfully reached. Additionally, baseline substance use (alcohol and marijuana use frequency) was higher in the justice-involved sample and significantly related to retention difficulty. CONCLUSIONS: High retention rates for justice-involved and substance-using youth are possible with focused efforts on frequent communication and effortful contact.
BACKGROUND: Low retention rates are a problem for longitudinal studies involving adolescents, and this is particularly true for justice-involved youth. METHODS: This study evaluates (1) strategies used to retain high-risk adolescents participating in a longitudinal research project; (2) the extent to which retention efforts were different in a justice-involved versus a non-justice-involved (school-based) sample; and (3) differential characteristics of justice-involved versus school-based adolescents that might explain differences in retention difficulty. RESULTS: Compared with the school-based youth, justice-involved youth required significantly more phone calls to be successfully reached. Additionally, baseline substance use (alcohol and marijuana use frequency) was higher in the justice-involved sample and significantly related to retention difficulty. CONCLUSIONS: High retention rates for justice-involved and substance-using youth are possible with focused efforts on frequent communication and effortful contact.
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Alcohol; HIV prevention; adolescents; marijuana; retention
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