The costs of recruitment and retention of women from community-based programs into a randomized controlled contraceptive study.

Study Aim: Assessing recruitment and retention activities needed to enroll women identified through community-based programs (such as the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program) into a randomized controlled clinical trial on nurse-delivered contraceptives in the home. The majority of women in this study had low socioeconomic status indicators and low levels of education, and the majority were young.

Methods: Recruitment sources and number of contact-attempts were collected and analyzed.