Engaging, recruiting, and retaining pregnant people from marginalized communities in environmental health cohort studies: a scoping review.

Objectives: To identify barriers to and strategies for improving the representation of pregnant people from marginalized communities in pregnancy cohort studies that measure environmental chemicals.

Methods: Guided by the Arksey O'Malley and Levac Frameworks, we conducted a scoping review of peer-reviewed literature published between 2000 and 2022. Included studies discussed barriers and/or strategies related to engaging, recruiting, and retaining pregnant participants or participants of reproductive age from marginalized communities into environmental health research.