The family heart dietary intervention program: Community response and characteristics of joining and nonjoining families

Family stress and coronary risk in children.

“…The FHS was a 5-year dietary intervention program aimed at reducing plasma lipids and blood pressure among disease-free, community-living families. More detailed descriptions of the FHS (recruitment, demographic characteristics, assessment and intervention protocols, risk factors for coronary heart disease) have been previously reported (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15). In general, risk factors for coronary heart disease (CHD) were similar to those reported from other studies of western populations with regard to plasma lipids and lipoproteins (12), blood pressure (13), heart rate and anthropometric measures (12,13), and Type A behavior (14,15).…”

Characteristics of attenders and non-attenders at an asthma education programme.

“…Attenders are more likely to be women and married (or to have children) with higher educational level or socioeconomic status or both. 24 Knowledge and beliefs about health are not usually discriminating factors.2527 Better general health, higher activity levels, and lower smoking rates among attenders were reported in a previous health promotion programme .26 The lower participation rate for men could not be accounted for by a higher level of current employment because those currently employed were, if anything, more likely to attend regard-less of sex, though the difference failed to reach significance.…”

Telephone Recruitment of a Random Stratified African American and White Family Study Sample

“…Also, recruitment rates are often quite low. Hollis et al (1984) reported a 20% success rate in recruiting door-to-door while Baranowski et al (1990) recruited about 13% of African American families using in-home outreach visits. Despite concerns, door-to-door recruitment may be a necessary recruitment strategy for certain potential participants (e.g., those who do not have a residential phone).…”