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ArticleNicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco2010

Reaching young adult smokers through the internet: comparison of three recruitment mechanisms.

Danielle E Ramo, Sharon M Hall, Judith J Prochaska

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Article in Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05824273 (Leveraging Social Media to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Awareness, Knowledge and Uptake in High-Risk Populations), which is not on this map. Cited by 78 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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NCT05824273 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

Leveraging Social Media to Increase Lung Cancer Screening Awareness, Knowledge and Uptake in High-Risk Populations

TypeinterventionalSponsorHackensack Meridian HealthRan2023 to 2024Enrolled512ConditionsLung CancerArmsLungTalk, Non-tailored intervention - Standard of practice
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Danielle E RamoDepartment of Psychiatry, University of California, 401 Parnassus Avenue, Box CPT 0984, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA. danielle.ramo@ucsf.edu
Sharon M Hall
Judith J Prochaska

Funding

TREATMENTS FOR COMPLEX PATIENTS IN NEW SETTINGSP50DA009253 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WEISNER, CONSTANCE M. · 1994 to 2014
$28.2M
Evaluation of Tobacco Treatment Strategies for Inpatient PsychiatryR01MH083684 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PROCHASKA, JUDITH J. · 2009 to 2013
$2.6M
Treating Tobacco Dependence in Inpatient PsychiatryK23DA018691 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PROCHASKA, JUDITH J. · 2005 to 2009
$769k
NIDA NIH HHS K23 DA018691NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA009253NIDA NIH HHS P50 DA09253NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH083684
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionWhile young adults have the highest prevalence of cigarette smoking of any adult age group, studies of tobacco and other substance use have reported challenges in recruiting this age group. The Internet may be a useful tool for reaching young adult smokers. The present study compared three Internet-based recruitment methods for young adult smokers to complete a survey about tobacco and other substance use: Craigslist advertisements, other Internet advertisements, and E-mail invitations through a survey sampling service.

methodsRecruitment campaigns invited young adults aged 18-25 years who had smoked at least one cigarette in the past 30 days to complete an online survey. Recruitment methods were compared across recruitment numbers, costeffectiveness, and demographic and smoking characteristics of recruited participants.

resultsIn 6 months, 920 people gave online consent to determine eligibility to complete the survey, of which 336 (36.5%) were eligible, and 201 (59.8%) completed the survey. While Internet advertisements yielded the largest proportion of recruited participants and completed surveys overall, Craigslist and sampling strategies were more successful at targeting young adult smokers who went on to complete the survey and were more costeffective. Participants differed in demographic and substance use characteristics across the three recruitment mechanisms. DISCUSSION: We identified success at reaching young adults who have smoked cigarettes recently through the Internet, though costs, participant eligibility, proportion of completed surveys, and respondent characteristics differed among the three methods. A multipronged approach to Internet recruitment is most likely to generate a broad diverse sample of young adult smokers.

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AdultAdvertisingData CollectionElectronic MailFemaleHealth PromotionHumansInternetMalePatient SelectionProgram EvaluationSmokingSocial MarketingUnited StatesYoung Adult

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PMID20530194
PMCPMC2893296

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