Table II.
Comparison of Families with Expedited Recruitment (ER) Versus Prolonged Recruitment (PR) on Number of Contacts and Length of Time to Recruit
| ER (N = 95) |
PR (N = 60) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | Range | M | SD | Range | t | p | Cohen’s d |
| Letters | 1.1 | 0.4 | 1.0–4.0 | 1.3 | 0.5 | 1.0–3.0 | −1.59 | .114 | −0.45 |
| Phone calls | 5.5 | 8.0 | 0.0–50.0 | 11.8 | 11.29 | 1.0–52.0 | −4.17 | .000 | −0.67 |
| Text messages | 0.4 | 0.9 | 0.0–4.0 | 1.1 | 2.4 | 0.0–12.0 | −2.79 | .001 | −0.42 |
| Clinic drop-ins | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0–1.0 | 0.4 | 0.7 | 0.0–3.0 | −5.14 | .000 | −0.91 |
| Total contacts | 7.0 | 8.2 | 1.0–52.0 | 15.4 | 12.3 | 2.0–54.0 | −5.06 | .000 | −0.84 |
| Time to recruitment (months) | 4.6 | 4.5 | 0.7–24.8 | 9.9 | 2.12 | 1.0–25.4 | 6.01 | .000 | −1.41 |
| Contacts/month | 2.0 | 1.7 | 0.3–11.7 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 0.4–5.0 | 0.09 | .366 | 0.14 |