TY - JOUR
T1 - Recruiting the ABCD sample
T2 - Design considerations and procedures
AU - Garavan, H.
AU - Bartsch, H.
AU - Conway, K.
AU - Decastro, A.
AU - Goldstein, R. Z.
AU - Heeringa, S.
AU - Jernigan, T.
AU - Potter, A.
AU - Thompson, W.
AU - Zahs, D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - The ABCD study is a new and ongoing project of very substantial size and scale involving 21 data acquisition sites. It aims to recruit 11,500 children and follow them for ten years with extensive assessments at multiple timepoints. To deliver on its potential to adequately describe adolescent development, it is essential that it adopt recruitment procedures that are efficient and effective and will yield a sample that reflects the nation's diversity in an epidemiologically informed manner. Here, we describe the sampling plans and recruitment procedures of this study. Participants are largely recruited through the school systems with school selection informed by gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and urbanicity. Procedures for school selection designed to mitigate selection biases, dynamic monitoring of the accumulating sample to correct deviations from recruitment targets, and a description of the recruitment procedures designed to foster a collaborative attitude between the researchers, the schools and the local communities, are provided.
AB - The ABCD study is a new and ongoing project of very substantial size and scale involving 21 data acquisition sites. It aims to recruit 11,500 children and follow them for ten years with extensive assessments at multiple timepoints. To deliver on its potential to adequately describe adolescent development, it is essential that it adopt recruitment procedures that are efficient and effective and will yield a sample that reflects the nation's diversity in an epidemiologically informed manner. Here, we describe the sampling plans and recruitment procedures of this study. Participants are largely recruited through the school systems with school selection informed by gender, race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and urbanicity. Procedures for school selection designed to mitigate selection biases, dynamic monitoring of the accumulating sample to correct deviations from recruitment targets, and a description of the recruitment procedures designed to foster a collaborative attitude between the researchers, the schools and the local communities, are provided.
KW - Adolescence
KW - Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development
KW - Recruitment
KW - Study design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046133879&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.04.004
DO - 10.1016/j.dcn.2018.04.004
M3 - Article
C2 - 29703560
AN - SCOPUS:85046133879
SN - 1878-9293
VL - 32
SP - 16
EP - 22
JO - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
ER -