Fifty healthy adults (32 women and 18 men), recruited either by word of mouth or by responding to local advertisements, participated in this study.
Briefly, study participants were recruited mainly by screening of high-risk groups who voluntarily responded to local advertisements.
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The commercial -- shown 40,000 times in various forms -- was one of the first local advertisements to run on New York television and was said to be the first to feature a child.
Participants are recruited via community contacts, schools, churches, primary healthcare organizations, word of mouth and local advertisements.
Participants are recruited through public and private elementary schools (kindergarten through grade 3), primary healthcare organizations including physician referrals, word of mouth and local advertisements through newspaper, internet, radio commercials and postal mailings.
VLBW graduates were traced through their addresses at 7 to 8 years, grandparents' addresses, general practitioners, National Health Index NHII) codes (NHI – a unique person identifier used within the New Zealand health system since 1993), via the electoral rolls and, in a limited number of cases, by local advertisements.
Physically inactive women will be recruited from the San Francisco Bay Area through the use of local newspaper advertisements, Craigslist (a classified advertisement website), Facebook, and flyers posted at local hospitals, medical clinics, dental clinics, community centers, and supermarkets, with the intent of recruiting a diverse and representative sample.
The selection of CAB members followed the "Broad community model" through either local advertisements and interviews of applicants (4 studies) or selection of members from existing community structures by research teams working with the members of these structures (3 studies) or clinic staff (1 study).
