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Purpose: Describe recruitment strategies used for Teen Connections (TC), a longitudinal study enrolling 139 mainly African American and Latino adolescent couples in New York City. Methods: Documented implementation dates, partner enrollment dates, effort required, and baseline characteristics. Results: Relationship type/characteristics, language in printed materials, parental consent, screener use, and partner gender influenced enrollment. 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Bauman  \nAbstrAct  \nBackground: There is considerable literature on effective engagement strategies for recruiting adolescents individually for health research studies, but literature on recruiting adolescent couples is new and minimal. Purpose: This paper describes the recruitment strategies used for Teen Connections (TC), a longitudinal study that recruited 139 mainly African American and Latino adolescent couples in romantic relationships living in New York City. Methods: We collected data in Microsoft Access and documented the date each recruitment strategy was implemented, date each partner was enrolled, and amount of effort required to enroll participants. We identified individual and relationship characteristics from each partner’s baseline survey. Results: We found that relationship type and characteristics, language used in printed materials, parental consent, implementing a screener questionnaire and gender of partner had implications for enrollment in TC. Discussion: Couples studies are highly demanding but achievable with dedicated staff and access to a large number of youth. Translation to Health Education Practice: Research on sexual health and risk often relies on individual reports of dyadic events. Adolescent couples’ studies may not be pursued because of recruitment limitations, but they can provide invaluable insight into relationship dynamics, characteristics, etc. that may help design better health education interventions, and should be pursued nonetheless.  \nRiveraA, Watnick D, Bauman LJ. Recruitment of African American and Latino adolescent couples in romantic relationships: lessons learned. Am J Health Educ. 2011;42(1):30-40. This paper was submitted to the Journal on March 31, 2010, revised and accepted for publication on August 22, 2010.  \nBACKgRoUND  \nYoung people of color in America are disproportionately affected by human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections.1-3 An extensive body of research has documented sources of risk, patterns of risk behavior, predictors of condom use and persistence of unsafe sexual behavior. 1, 4-7 This literature is based predominantly on individual-level models of behavior, and findings show that condom outcome and efficacy expectancies, intentionstouse condoms and perceptions of risk are related to safer sex behavior. 5-7 We believe that couple-level factors such as love, trust, future commitment, expectation of monogamy and actual monogamy are impor-  \ntant predictors of condom use among teens, but these have been neglected. We began a five-year study of teenage couples called Teen Connections (TC), which required developing recruitment procedures that were effective, efficient and ethically sound. In this paper, we report our recruitment experiences to provide abase of information  \nAngelic Rivera is a project director in the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/PIRC, 1300 Morris Park Avenue VE6B4, Bronx NY 10461; E-mail: Angelic. [rivera@einstein.yu.edu. Dana Watnick](rivera@einstein.yu.edu. Dana Watnick) is a project director in the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/PIRC,  \nupon which others can build.  \nThere is considerable literature on effective engagement strategies for recruiting adolescents individually for health research studies,8-13 but research on adolescent couples is very new. To identify papers describing recruitment of both members of adolescent couples, we searched PsychInfo,  \n1300 Morris Park Avenue VE6B23, Bronx, New York 10461. Laurie J. Bauman is a professor of Pediatrics and director of the Preventive Intervention Research Center in the Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ PIRC, 1300 Morris Park Avenue VE6B25, Bronx, New York 10461.  \n30 American Journal of Health Education","cbCaijWB33hFPIvn","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijWB33hFPIvn","pdf",156529,11,"English","# Abstract\n## Background\n## Purpose\n## Methods\n## Results\n## Discussion\n## Translation to Health Education Practice\n# Purpose\n## Teen Connections Project Description\n## Recruitment process","[{\"question\":\"Why is recruiting adolescent couples difficult compared with recruiting adolescents individually?\",\"answer\":\"The paper notes that literature on adolescent-couple recruitment is new and minimal, and teens require special considerations such as parental permission, ethical concerns, and scheduling within family obligations.\"},{\"question\":\"What recruitment process was used for Teen Connections (TC)?\",\"answer\":\"TC used a two-step recruitment process: first, recruiting youth into the Teen Lifestyle Survey (TLS), a confidential self-administered computer-assisted questionnaire, then enrolling eligible couples into the longitudinal study.\"},{\"question\":\"Which factors influenced enrollment in TC?\",\"answer\":\"Enrollment implications were found for relationship type and characteristics, language used in printed materials, parental consent, implementing a screener questionnaire, and the gender of partner.\"}]","Recruitment of African American and Latino Adolescent Couples in Romantic Relationships: Lessons Learned | PDF",1792074426,28]