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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nurs Res. 2018 May-Jun;67(3):212–221. doi: 10.1097/NNR.0000000000000274

TABLE 2.

Active and Passive Recruitment Enrollment Efficiencies by Strategy and Venue

Type/strategy/venue Evaluated Eligible Enrolled EE
Active
  Formal Presentations
    Church 13 7 5 38.4
    Community center 4 3 3 75.0
    Total 17 10 8 47.0
  Direct Intercepts
    Barbershop 2 2 2 100.0
      Canvasing 7 2 2 28.5
      Community center 25 23 19 76.0
      DMV 10 7 3 30.0
      Laundromat 1 1 1 100.0
      Libraries 75 57 45 60.0
      Store 4 3 1 25.0
      Total 124 95 73 58.8
  Health fairs
      Church 38 23 13 34.2
      City/state building 13 7 6 46.1
      Civic organizations 18 8 8 44.4
      Community Center 10 10 6 60.0
      Corporations 3 3 3 100.0
      University/hospital 39 34 29 74.3
      Total 121 85 65 54.1
Active (grand total) 262 190 146 55.7
Passive
  Flyers 41 25 20 48.7
  Radio and TV spotlights 5 3 3 60.0
  Direct mail 59 39 34 57.6
  Digital ads
      Internet ad (e.g., Craigslist) 11 9 8 72.7
      List serve 1 1 1 100.0
      Social media (e.g., Facebook) 1 0 0 0
      I-ACT study website 0 0 0 0
      Total 13 10 9 69.0
  Print articles and ads
      Newspaper 100 68 62 62.0
      Cultural magazines 4 1 1 25.0
      Total 104 69 63 60.5
Passive (grand total) 222 146 129 58.1

Note. N = . DMV = Department of Motor Vehicles; EE = enrollment efficiency (participants enrolled/ participants evaluated * 100); I-ACT = Increasing Access to Colorectal Cancer Testing for Blacks.