Recruitment and retention of urban schoolchildren into a randomized double-blind vitamin D supplementation trial

Clinical Trials

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 45-53

  Sacheck, Jennifer M ^a   Van Rompay, Maria I ^a   Olson, Elizabeth M ^a   Chomitz, Virginia R ^b   Goodman, Elizabeth ^c   Gordon, Catherine M ^d   Eliasziw, Misha ^b   Holick, Michael F ^e   Economos, Christina D ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d HASBRO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Randomized controlled trial; Recruitment; Retention; School based intervention; Vitamin d

Indexed keywords

VITAMIN D;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCHOOL HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; ADOLESCENT; DIETARY SUPPLEMENT; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; MASSACHUSETTS; PATIENT SELECTION; SCHOOL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

ADOLESCENT; BOSTON; CHILD; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; SCHOOLS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; VITAMIN D; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 84922379349     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774514556551     Document Type: Article

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