Infant Characteristics Associated With Plasma Zinc at 3 Months of Age in Rural Bangladeshi Infants From the JiVitA-3 Trial
mothers, 9.7% were WIC participants, 7.7% Asian, 6.5% Black, 65.8% were White, 2.6% mixed, and 17.4% not specified race; 23.2% were Hispanics and 83% had a 3 bachelor's degree.Conclusions: The most effective strategy to recruit participants was incentivized snowball referrals.Although an important challenge was the substantial number of bots, our recruitment strategy was effective in recruiting the sample size needed.This recruitment strategy enabled a diverse group of ethnicities, although education level was notably higher.
Authors
- Saijuddin Shaikh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5095-1478)
- Kerry Schulze (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3235-2695)
- Parul S. Christian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2908-1030)
- Hasmot Ali (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0044-1992)
- Sarah Baker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4921-0503)
- Keith P West
- Lee S-F Wu
- Katherine K. Stephenson
- Ximing Ge
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Developments in Nutrition
- Published
- 2025-05-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2025.106813
- Primary Topic
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00