Recruitment best practices of a cardiovascular risk reduction randomised control trial in rural Alaska Native communities

• Published in: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
• Main Authors: Mariah Knox, Jordan Skan, Neal L. Benowitz, Matthew Schnellbaecher, Judith J. Prochaska
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020
• Subjects: recruitment strategies; rural; alaska native; cardiovascular health; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; Norton Sound; Circumpolar Health; International Journal of Circumpolar Health; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1080/22423982.2020.1806639; https://doaj.org/article/2262e95245684109b79097c7419a1b17

Though not native to Alaska, tobacco use is common among Alaska Native people in the Norton Sound region, an area consisting of 16 communities with population size 107 to 3,695. We summarise best practices in recruiting Alaska Native adults who smoke for a randomised controlled tobacco treatment tri...