Recruiting families of color from the inner city: Insights from the recruiters

Family interviewers hired to recruit families of color from low-income communities into a health promotion/prevention research project participated in a focus group to describe their experiences. The family interviewers described (1) recruitment techniques, (2) personal attributes they thought made a difference in their recruitment and retention efforts, (3) barriers they faced during recruitment, and (4) the experience of working for a white researcher.