Recruitment strategies in a prospective longitudinal family study on parents with obesity and their toddlers

• Main Authors: Sarah Bergmann (Author), Anja Keitel-Korndörfer (Author), Katharina Herfurth-Majstorovic (Author), Verena Wendt (Author), Annette M. Klein (Author), Kai von Klitzing (Author), Matthias Grube (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Recruitment of participants with obesity is a real challenge. To reduce time and costs in similar projects, we investigated various recruiting strategies used in a longitudinal family study with respect to their enrolment yield and cost effectiveness. Results may help other resea...