Chunk #40 — Discussion

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Recruitment and retention strategies for minority or poor clinical research participants: lessons from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span study.

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Cross-cultural research must be culturally sensitive (Friedemann, Pagan-Coss, & Mayorga, 2008). In designing HANDLS, we recognized that the researchers and staff might direct their personal bias unwittingly toward the participants. The cultural proficiency training enabled HANDLS staff to recognize and reconcile how their personal biases could influence their interactions with persons from a culture other than their own.