Personal and community-level obstacles hinder inclusion of Korean-Americans in health promotion research programs, Johns Hopkins School of Nursing researchers found.
In “Barriers to and Strategies for Recruiting Korean Americans for Community-Partnered Health Promotion Research,” the authors analyzed 14 prior studies involving more than 2,400 Korean-Americans.
Barriers to recruitment efforts include cultural beliefs and attitudes ? particularly what authors describe as “a crisis-oriented system of care in which preventive medicine or health promotion is ignored” ? reliance on traditional medicine; language, gender and age-related issues; low or no health care insurance coverage; and a general lack of understanding about research studies.
