ArticleJournal of medical Internet research2014
Using online social media for recruitment of human immunodeficiency virus-positive participants: a cross-sectional survey.
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68 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Improving Participant Recruitment in Clinical Trials: Comparative Analysis of Innovative Digital Platforms.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Pooled it
- Online Patient Recruitment in Clinical Trials: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- The Use of Facebook in Recruiting Participants for Health Research Purposes: A Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Pooled it
- Comparing Social Media and In-Person Recruitment: Lessons Learned From Recruiting Substance-Using, Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents and Young Adults for a Randomized Control Trial.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2021Trial
- Implementation of a Web-Based Organ Donation Educational Intervention: Development and Use of a Refined Process Evaluation Model.Journal of medical Internet research · 2017Trial
- Protocol for a pilot randomised controlled trial of an online intervention for post-treatment cancer survivors with persistent fatigue.BMJ open · 2016Trial
- Using Facebook™ to Recruit College-Age Men for a Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Trial.American journal of men's health · 2016Trial
- Effectiveness and Costs of Participant Recruitment Strategies to a Web-Based Population Cohort: Observational Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Observational
- Implementing Social Media Strategies in Community-Partnered HIV Research: Practical Considerations From 3 Ongoing Studies.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2025Article
- Incentives and Trust Are the Main Drivers of Recruiting Participants in 6 African Countries via Web-Based Environments: A Vignette Survey Experiment.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Exploring the Views of Young People, Including Those With a History of Self-Harm, on the Use of Their Routinely Generated Data for Mental Health Research: Web-Based Cross-Sectional Survey Study.JMIR mental health · 2025Article
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- Exploring Student Perspectives and Experiences of Online Opportunities for Virtual Care Skills Development: Sequential Explanatory Mixed Methods Study.JMIR nursing · 2024Article
- Assessment of the general public's knowledge of atrial fibrillation through social media: a cross-sectional study.BMC nursing · 2023Article
- Using Twitter Data Analysis to Understand the Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes about Pharmacotherapy Used in Rheumatology: An Observational Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- How to optimize recruitment strategies of patients with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases for online surveys: experience from an international study.Rheumatology international · 2023Article
- The use of online social media for the recruitment of people living with HIV in Spain and Latin America: Lessons from two studies.Health & social care in the community · 2022Article
- Using Social Media to Facilitate Communication About Women's Testing: Tool Validation Study.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundThere are many challenges in recruiting and engaging participants when conducting research, especially with HIV-positive individuals. Some of these challenges include geographical barriers, insufficient time and financial resources, and perceived HIV-related stigma.
objectiveThis paper describes the methodology of a recruitment approach that capitalized on existing online social media venues and other Internet resources in an attempt to overcome some of these barriers to research recruitment and retention.
methodsFrom May through August 2013, a campaign approach using a combination of online social media, non-financial incentives, and Web-based survey software was implemented to advertise, recruit, and retain participants, and collect data for a survey study with a limited budget.
resultsApproximately US $5,000 was spent with a research staff designated at 20% of full-time effort, yielding 2034 survey clicks, 1404 of which met the inclusion criteria and initiated the survey, for an average cost of US $3.56 per survey initiation. A total of 1221 individuals completed the survey, yielding 86.97% retention.
conclusionsThese data indicate that online recruitment is a feasible and efficient tool that can be further enhanced by sophisticated online data collection software and the addition of non-financial incentives.
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