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September 5, 2025Frontiers in Public HealthOpen Access

Overcoming recruitment barriers through meaningful community engagement: lessons learned from a maternal-child food insecurity assessment in underserved communities

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GBGabriela BucciniCHCristina HernándezKHKristen N. Herlosky

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Overview

Case study identifies barriers and engagement strategies for recruiting participants in underserved communities, suggesting improvements.

Key Points

  • Barriers to participant recruitment included community apathy and service-level staff unwilling to engage.
  • Engagement strategies included building trust, listening without bias, and compensating contributions.
  • The study employed ethnography and qualitative coding to analyze barriers and strategies systematically.
  • The findings underscore systemic challenges and the vital role of community organizations in research participation.

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Buccini et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c239a3b210217d6477d8a0https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1636578
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