Research team members |
Underrepresented group member researchers |
Underrepresented member principal/co-investigator |
Underrepresented group member staff |
Underrepresented group member project staff as recruiters, interventionists, and data collectors |
Recruiting or training culturally competent staff |
Church members as interventionists |
Methodology features |
Recruitment |
Recruitment through churches, health care facilities, schools, businesses, community events, worksites, |
Recruit via target audience mass media |
Use of recruiter from underrepresented group |
Recruitment by church staff or members |
Involve group members in designing recruitment |
Study location |
Target population community centers or businesses |
Intended participant churches or schools |
Measures |
Measures in appropriate language |
Measures administered by underrepresented staff |
Cost awareness |
Provide childcare |
Conduct study in participants’ neighborhood |
Study site near subway or bus station |
Provide transportation costs |
Interventions |
Input from members to design interventions |
Advisory council or groups |
Focus groups |
Survey members |
Intervention materials reviewed by underrepresented advisers |
Underrepresented group member-linked values |
Families and social interactions |
Interrelationships among physical, spiritual, and psychological health |
Convey information valuing experience and intuition |
Use group concepts, stories, metaphors |
Language and literacy issues |
Interventions and measures in participants’ language |
Project personnel speak participants’ language |
Reduce reading level of project materials |
Use graphical project materials over written text |
Media |
Target group specific celebrities, role models, and well-known personalities |
Target group articles from group publications |
PA form |
Group-linked exercise forms such as dance |
Underrepresented group linked barriers to PA |
Address family responsibilities as a barrier to PA |
Address fatalism as a barrier to PA |
Address self-esteem as a barrier to PA |