The Role of Filial Piety in Dyadic Recruitment of Chinese American Parents With Type 2 Diabetes and Their Adult Children.
Therese Doan, Sumiyo Brennan, Carole Kulik and 1 others
PMID 36927285WHAT IT FOUND
Adult children recruited hard-to-reach Chinese American parents with diabetes, especially parents with little English, low education, and recent U.S. arrival; family concern motivated participation.
Key findings
01Adult children recruited older parents who spoke little to no English, had lower education, and had lived in the United States for less than 10 years.
02The most common reason for joining was to contribute to research (57% of parents and 72% of adult children), followed by learning about diabetes (44% and 39%).
03One out of five primary participants successfully recruited the other member of the dyad.
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What it does not show
The article reports recruitment methods and participant characteristics, not diabetes self-management outcomes. The paper is a descriptive study of the recruitment process, not a controlled comparison of recruitment strategies. Recruitment attrition was large: the paper states a 3.67% recruitment rate, 44% response rate, and 78% attrition from screening. Findings are limited to Chinese communities with similar geographical settings, and dyad results are limited to families with similar family settings. Income association could not be measured because about 45% of secondary recruited parents declined to state income range. Only one third of Chinese parent participants had access to a personal computer/laptop or tablet, which may limit online survey findings.
Declared interests
The article notes extramural NIH research support. Authors declared no potential conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that culturally tailored recruitment improves diabetes care or that filial piety caused participation. This was a descriptive study of recruitment, not a test of a patient-care intervention, and it did not report diabetes outcomes.