McLaughlin, Thomas J.Aupont, OneskyMoore Simas, Tiffany ASepavich, Deidre M.Felice, Marianne E.2022-08-232022-08-232016-06-012017-02-13Pediatrics. 2016 Jun;137 Suppl 4:S248-57. doi: 10.1542/peds.2015-4410F. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-4410F">Link to article on publisher's site</a>0031-4005 (Linking)10.1542/peds.2015-4410F27251871https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/28867OBJECTIVE: In 2010, the National Children's Study launched 3 alternative recruitment methods to test possible improvements in efficiency compared with traditional household-based recruitment and participant enrollment. In 2012, a fourth method, provider-based sampling (PBS), tested a probability-based sampling of prenatal provider locations supplemented by a second cohort of neonates born at a convenience sample of maternity hospitals. METHODS: From a sampling frame of 472 prenatal care provider locations and 59 maternity hospitals, 49 provider and 7 hospital locations within or just outside 3 counties participated in study recruitment. During first prenatal care visits or immediately postdelivery at these locations, face-to-face contact was used to screen and recruit eligible women. RESULTS: Of 1450 screened women, 1270 were eligible. Consent rates at prenatal provider locations (62%-74% by county) were similar to those at birth locations (64%-77% by county). During 6 field months, 3 study centers enrolled a total prenatal cohort of 530 women (the majority in the first trimester) and during 2 months enrolled a birth cohort of an additional 320 mother-newborn dyads. As personnel became experienced in the field, the time required to enroll a woman in the prenatal cohort declined from up to 200 hours to 50 to 100 hours per woman recruited. CONCLUSIONS: We demonstrated that PBS was feasible and operationally efficient in recruiting a representative cohort of newborns from 3 diverse US counties. Our findings suggest that PBS is a practical approach to recruit large pregnancy and birth cohorts across the United States.en-USObstetrics and GynecologyPediatricsJournal Articlehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/faculty_pubs/11019679916faculty_pubs/1101