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ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS): Increased Response Rates Among African American Residents in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods

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African American (AA) populations experience persistent health disparities in the USA. Low representation in bio-specimen research precludes stratified analyses and creates challenges in studying health outcomes among AA populations. Previous studies examining determinants of bio-specimen research participation among minority participants have focused on individual-level barriers and facilitators. Neighborhood-level contextual factors may also inform bio-specimen research participation, possibly through social norms and the influence of social views and behaviors on neighbor’s perspectives. We conducted an epidemiological study of residents in 5108 Chicago addresses to examine determinants of bio-specimen research participation among predominantly AA participants solicited for participation in the first 6 years of ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS). We used a door-to-door recruitment strategy by interviewers of predominantly minority race and ethnicity. Participants were compensated with a $50 gift card. We achieved response rates of 30.4% for non-AA addresses and 58.0% for AA addresses, with as high as 80.3% response among AA addresses in low socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods. After multivariable adjustment, we found approximately 3 times the odds of study participation among predominantly AA addresses in low vs. average SES neighborhoods (odds ratio (OR) = 3.06; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 2.20–4.24). Conversely, for non-AA addresses, we observed no difference in the odds of study participation in low vs. average SES neighborhoods (OR = 0.89; 95% CI = 0.69–1.14) after multivariable adjustment. Our findings suggest that AA participants in low SES neighborhoods may be recruited for bio-specimen research through door-to-door approaches with compensation. Future studies may elucidate best practices to improve bio-specimen research participation among minority populations.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Tomide Owolabi and Siam Rezwan for literature review support and Michele Thompson for administrative support.

Funding

This work was supported by the National Cancer Institute [grant numbers 5P30CA014599-44 and T32CA193193], the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences [grant number P30ES027792-03], the National Institute on Aging [grant number T32AG000243], the Susan G. Komen Foundation [grant number GTDR16376189], and the University of Chicago Department of Public Health Sciences.

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  1. Department of Public Health Sciences, The University of Chicago Biological Sciences, 5841 S. Maryland Ave., MC2000, Chicago, IL, 60637, USA

    David J. Press, Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Diane Lauderdale, Elizabeth Stepniak, Donald Hedeker & Habibul Ahsan

  2. Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    David J. Press

  3. The Center for Health Information Partnerships (CHiP), Institute of Public Health and Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    David J. Press

  4. Institute for Population and Precision Health, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Briseis Aschebrook-Kilfoy & Habibul Ahsan

  5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Scarlett Lin Gomez

  6. Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin, TX, USA

    Emily Peterson Johnson

  7. Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rajan Gopalakrishnan & Habibul Ahsan

  8. Department of Economics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Fabrice Smieliauskas

  9. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA

    Fabrice Smieliauskas

  10. Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Luís Bettencourt

  11. Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Luís Bettencourt

  12. Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Luís Bettencourt

  13. Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

    Luís Bettencourt

  14. Center for Spatial Data Science, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Luc Anselin

  15. Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Habibul Ahsan

  16. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Habibul Ahsan

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Press, D.J., Aschebrook-Kilfoy, B., Lauderdale, D. et al. ChicagO Multiethnic Prevention and Surveillance Study (COMPASS): Increased Response Rates Among African American Residents in Low Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods. J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities 8, 186–198 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40615-020-00770-2

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