Evaluation of a mass mailing recruitment strategy to obtain a community sample of women for a clinical trial of an incontinence prevention intervention

International Urology and Nephrology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 255-261

  Messer, Kassandra L ^a   Herzog, A Regula ^a   Seng, Julia S ^a   Sampselle, Carolyn M ^a   Diokno, Ananias C ^b   Raghunathan, T E ^a   Hines, Sandra H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

External validity; Mass mailing; Prevention trial; Randomized controlled clinical trial; Recruitment; Representative community sample; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMUNITY; CONTINENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL MAIL; POSTMENOPAUSE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SAMPLING; URINE INCONTINENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTAL SERVICE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33746480270     PISSN: 03011623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11255-006-0018-1     Document Type: Article

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