1. Project: “Using a Smartphone App to Improve WIC Redemptions” Recruitment Training for NonAPP Site
Old Dominion University
Trainer NAME: Dr. Marilyn Bartholmae
Trainer
Trainer Cell Phone: (360)

2. Introduction
Goal for non-app WIC sites: To recruit WIC participants as a comparison group.

3. Goal of the project: Is the WIC app effective?
Pilot Project launched by ODU and VA WIC
If successful, state implementation likely
YOUR JOB IS CRUCIAL AND MAY AFFECT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF WIC FAMILIES

4. Every Document is on THIS Website

5. Your Job: Recruitment Recruit 50 participants per district
Who are eligible? (File: NonApp_F1_Intro)
Have a Smartphone
Have Fruit & Vegetable and Cereal Benefit
Participant is the primary WIC shopper
Be able to read and write in English
“Shall I recruit ANY 50 participants?”
E.g. recruit 50 participants in one day?
NO! The recruitment should be “balanced”

6. Recruiting Goal: 50 participants (Balanced)
Select a Main Clinic (Where District Coordinator is)
Individual recruitment: no more than 5 households enrolled per day.
Recruited in both the morning and the afternoon.
Group class: convenient and representative.
Based on the number of WIC participating women and the number of WIC participating infants/children in the household
Five categories in the Tracking Sheet (File: App_F2_Track)

7. Quota for Five Categories
Target: 50 participants
Each household can have only one participant in our project
Quota (Infants count as well)
Women only:
Woman and 1 infant/child: 17
Women & 2 or more infants/children: 10
1 Child only (can’t be infant): 14
2 or more infants/children as long as with F&V and cereal benefits:

8. How to do the recruitment?
Four Steps
Step 1: Introduction & screening
Step 2: Informed consent
Step 3: Baseline survey
Step 4: $10 gift card

9. Step 1: Introduction & Screening
Put an introduction on your desk and show it to the participants
File: NonApp_F1_Intro
“Are you interested in the study?”
If yes, check the eligibility
“Have a Smartphone”?
“Have fruit and vegetable benefit AND cereal benefits?”
“Are you the primary WIC shopper?”
If yes to all questions, check the quota to be met
File: NonApp_F2_Track

10. Step 2: Informed consent
Check the time availability for all steps first
“Do you have approximately 10~15 minutes?”
Since you don’t want to discontinue in the middle of the process
Go through the Informed Consent with patience
File: NonApp_F3_Consent
Ask them to sign two copies of the informed consent and YOU need to sign them as well
Keep one copy for site coordinator (your supervisor) and give one copy to the participant

11. Step 3. Complete a Survey
To participants
“Congratulations, you are almost there!”
WIC staff: prepare a hard copy of the survey
File: NonApp_F4_Survey
Please fill out the survey for training
Allocate space for participants to complete the survey
Encourage questions to ensure the quality of the survey
“Please give it back to me so I can give you $10 gift card!”
Quality control: CHECK the completion of the survey, especially the first page

12. Step 4: Give the $10 gift card
“Thank you so much for your support!”
Check the signature of informed consent
Check the survey
Check the Tracking Table
(File: NonApp_F2_Track)
Return the signed informed consent and survey back to your site coordinator
If scan needed, please scan it to PDF file
Congratulations, you completed one recruit!
Use the checklist as a helper.
File: NonApp_F5_Checklist

13. Things to Mention Voluntarily Recruitment Explain the informed consent
No coercion
Explain the informed consent
Protect the privacy

14. Follow-up Please complete the training certificate
File: NonApp_F6_Training
it back to Project Coordinator, Dr. Marilyn Bartholmae,
Questions? Cell: