Tracking and Follow-Up of Marginalized Populations: A Review

McKenzie, Michelle; Tulsky, Jacqueline P.; Long, Heather L.; Chesney, Margaret A.; Moss, Andrew R.

doi:10.1353/hpu.2010.0697

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“…Four participants withdrew from the study and thirteen were lost to follow up. These follow-up rates are comparable to other studies with marginalized populations (McKenzie et al, 1999;Veldhuizen et al, 2014). There was no difference at baseline between those lost to follow-up and study participants according to: age, gender, race, housing stability, primary income source, history of incarceration, current crack use, current IDU, emergency department use in past six months, and history of mental health hospitalization.…”

Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 82%

Beyond viral response: A prospective evaluation of a community-based, multi-disciplinary, peer-driven model of HCV treatment and support

Mason¹,

Dodd²,

Sockalingam³

et al. 2015

International Journal of Drug Policy

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Section: Resultssupporting

confidence: 82%

Beyond viral response: A prospective evaluation of a community-based, multi-disciplinary, peer-driven model of HCV treatment and support

Mason¹,

Dodd²,

Sockalingam³

et al. 2015

International Journal of Drug Policy

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“…Cases were assigned to interviewers randomly and with the idea that the participant and interviewer would remain paired throughout the course of the study, unless a safety concern or staff turnover dictated a change. There was no matching on gender or ethnicity because we have found, similar to others (McKenzie et al, 1999), that the ability to form a respectful relationship with a participant matters more than being of the same race or gender.This approach has several advantages. Because cases are randomly assigned, interviewers all have a comparable mix of difficult and easy cases.…”

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Operational Lessons from the Pathways to Desistance Project

Schubert

Mulvey

Steinberg

et al. 2004

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Implementing a large, longitudinal study of any sample is a major undertaking. The challenges are compounded when the study involves multiple sites and a high-risk sample. This article outlines the methodology for the Pathways to Desistance study, a multisite, longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders, and discusses the key operational decisions with the greatest impact on the study design.Keywords juvenile delinquents; juvenile offenders; multisite study; participant retention; operational issues; participant recruitment; longitudinal studies; data collection; tracking participants; Pathways to Desistance; methods Over the past 2 decades, a great deal has been learned about the risk indicators associated with adolescent antisocial behavior and delinquency. Indeed, much has been clarified about how delinquent behavior starts, the general trajectory of this behavior during adolescence, and the relative predictive power of certain risk indicators (see, for example, Blumstein, Cohen, Roth, & Visher, 1986;Cicchetti & Cohen, 1995;Farrington, 1997;LeBlanc & Loeber, 1998;Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber, Moffitt, & Caspi, 2001;Moffitt, 1993;Sampson & Laub, 1990, 1997. One particularly important finding to emerge from this literature is that relatively few adolescent offenders go on to serious adult offending (Loeber & Farrington, 2000;Moffitt, 1993). Consequently, one of the most pressing current challenges for the field is to reliably NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptYouth Violence Juv Justice. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2010 January 29. NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript distinguish between juvenile offenders who will continue problem behavior beyond adolescence and those who will not.Successfully meeting this challenge requires a greater empirical understanding about how and why juveniles desist from committing crime. Several calls have been made for researchers to study desistance from criminal activity with the same vigor exerted toward issues surrounding the onset of criminal activity (e.g., Farrington, 1997), yet the literature in this domain remains scant. One comprehensive approach to understanding this process would be to examine desistance from criminal activity prospectively, using multiple sources of information beyond official reporting (Farrington, 1997). This approach would be guided by the literature on child and adolescent development, and sensitive to the potential implications of findings for designing interventions and developing rational justice policies.The Pathways to Desistance Project highlighted in this special edition is an attempt to take up this challenge. It is a large-scale, two-site longitudinal examination of desistance from crime among adolescent serious offenders. The goal of the current study was to elucidate how developmental processes, social context, and intervention and sanctioning experiences affect the process of desistance from crime. The current study employed a prospective design with a broad measurement...

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“…The goal of our study is to achieve an 80% retention rate, using methods shown to be effective at tracking and retaining homeless and vulnerably housed participants (McKenzie et al 1999). Efforts were made to establish trust and rapport with participants at first contact and to explain the importance of their participation in follow-up interviews.…”

Section: Follow-up Proceduresmentioning

confidence: 99%