Chunk #16 — Results — Individual Barriers — Behavioral and Social Factors.—

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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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The ability to recruit young adults in the target neighborhoods was hampered in intractable ways by alcohol and illicit drug use. Intoxication by alcohol or drug abuse led us to exclude individuals who might otherwise have participated. We also excluded participants involved with the criminal justice system (home detention monitoring system in place, residence in halfway houses maintained by the prison system) from Wave 1.