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Table 2 Representativeness of enrolled participants to US census data and by active and passive recruitment strategies

From: A pragmatic examination of active and passive recruitment methods to improve the reach of community lifestyle programs: The Talking Health Trial

Demo-graphic charac-teristics

U.S. census data (<65 years)

All screened n = 1,056a

Eligible n = 620b

Active recruitment

Passive recruitment

Cluster-adjusted t-test p-value

    

Eligible n = 455

(1)

Enrolled n = 199

(2)

Not Enrolled n = 256

(3)

Eligible n = 124

(4)

Enrolled n = 102

(5)

Not Enrolled n = 22

(6)

(1) vs. (4)

(2) vs. (3)

(5) vs. (6)

Female

48.1%

77.2%

77.3%

73.8%

77.9%

70.7%

87.9%

88.2%

86.4%

0.000

0.083

0.842

Mean Age (SD)

40.8

43.3 (14.6)

40.1 (13.5)

39.0 (13.2)

40.7 (12.9)

37.7 (13.3)

44.3 (14.0)

44.1 (14.0)

45.2 (14.5)

0.133

0.054

0.780

White

93.9%

88.8%

90.3%

89.5%

92.0%

87.5%

92.7%

95.1%

81.8%

0.178

0.302

0.169

Hispanic

1.6%

2.1%

1.4%

1.2%

0.5%

1.8%

1.6%

2%

0%

0.766

0.091

0.206

Beyond High school

57.9%

65.1%

60.4%

58.6%

64.3%

54.1%

72.6%

75.5%

59.1%

0.046

0.049

0.203

Mean Income (SD)

$48,105

$24,609

(17,651)

$21,981

(16,443)

$20,045

(15,257)

$19,548

(15,423)

$20,447

(15,141)

$29,073

(18,139)

$30,245

(18,177)

$23,636

(17,333)

0.002

0.635

0.077

Mean Health Literacy: Total (SD)c

 

13.3 (2.3)

13.2 (2.4)

13.2 (2.4)

13.3 (2.3)

13.1 (2.4)

13.5 (2.2)

13.7 (1.9)

13.0 (3.3)

0.190

0.389

0.433

  1. aMissing recruitment method on 89 of 1056 participants screened (8.4%)
  2. bMissing recruitment method on 41 of 620 participants who were eligible (6.6%)
  3. cBased on a summed score out of three health literacy screening items (1 = low health literacy, 15-high health literacy)