Recruitment of Mid-Life Adults to a Randomized Clinical Trial: The Multicultural Healthy Diet Study to Reduce Cognitive Decline and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk

This article describes the effectiveness of various recruitment modalities to recruit a racial/ethnically representative cohort of mid-life adults in Bronx, New York. Although invitation letters and telephone calls yielded the highest number of recruits, results indicate that a multi-pronged recruitment strategy is essential to recruit a multi-cultural cohort.

Katz MJ, et al. Recruitment of mid-life adults to a randomized clinical trial: The multicultural healthy diet study to reduce cognitive decline and Alzheimer's disease risk . Alzheimers Dement (NY). 2025 Nov 14;11(4):e70174. doi: 10.1002/trc2.70174.

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