Recruitment strategies and yields for the Pathobiology of Prediabetes in a Biracial Cohort: a prospective natural history study of incident dysglycemia

Table 1 Percentage yields from recruitment sources in the POP-ABC study and the diabetes prevention program

POP-ABC study				Diabetes prevention program
	All	Caucasian	Afr. American	Caucasian	Afr. American
Direct Mail	5.9	10.7	2.3	29.6	39.8
Print	30.6	35.8	26.7	18.2	9.0
Screening event	24.5	12.6	33.2	8.2	13.7
Radio/TV/Internet	9.8	8.8	10.6	9.4	10.0
Relative/Friend	10.4	11.3	9.7	6.5	7.8
Clinical referral	12.8	12.6	12.9	6.4	7.4
Flyer/Brochure	6.1	8.2	4.6	3.3	0.9

In the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) ¹³ phone solicitations (a method that was not used in the POP-ABC study) yielded 0.9% of Caucasian and 1.3% of African American recruitment. The Internet was not a recruitment source for the DPP. The DPP columns do not add up to 100% because of missing values and “other” category. The POP-ABC category of Flyer/Brochure is equivalent to the DPP category of Poster/Newsletter¹³. POP-ABC = Pathobiology of Prediabetes in A Biracial Cohort.

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