ArticleJournal of substance use
Recruitment Strategies of Methamphetamine-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men into an Online Survey.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
- Social Media Use for Research Participant Recruitment: Integrative Literature Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Review
- Web-Based Eligibility Quizzes to Verify Opioid Use and County Residence Among Rural Young Adults: Eligibility Screening Results from a Feasibility Study.JMIR research protocols · 2019Article
- Fraud Detection Protocol for Web-Based Research Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Development and Descriptive Evaluation.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2019Article
- The Effectiveness of Internet- and Field-Based Methods to Recruit Young Adults Who Use Prescription Opioids Nonmedically.Substance use & misuse · 2018Article
- Substance Use and Psychological Distress Before and After the Military to Civilian Transition.Military medicine · 2018Article
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- The Use of Social Media in Recruitment for Medical Research Studies: A Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Article
- Non-monosexual Partnerships: Information, Motivation and Self-Efficacy among Methamphetamine-Using Men Who Have Sex with Men Who Also Have Sex with Women or Transgender Persons.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2016Article
- Substance-use and sexual harm reduction strategies of methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men and inject drugs.AIDS care · 2015Article
- Recruitment Strategies of Indian Men Who Have Sex with Men in the State of Maharashtra Into an Online Survey.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual HealthArticle
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Abstract
Recruiting hidden populations into online research remains challenging. In this manuscript, we report lessons learned from our efforts to recruit methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men. Between July and October 2012, we implemented a four-phase recruitment strategy to enroll a total of 343 methamphetamine-using MSM into an online survey about recent substance use, sexual behavior, and various psychosocial measures. The four phases were implemented sequentially. During phase one, we placed advertisements on mobile applications, and during phase two, we placed advertisements on traditional websites formatted for browsers. During phase three, we used e-mail to initiate snowball recruitment, and during phase four, we used social media for snowball recruitment. Advertisements on mobile devices and websites formatted for browsers proved to be expensive options and resulted in few eligible participants. Our attempts to initiate a snowball through e-mail also proved unsuccessful. The majority (n=320) of observations in our final dataset came from our use of social media. However, participant fraud was a concern, requiring us to implement a strong participant verification protocol. For maximum recruitment and cost-effectiveness, researchers should use social media for recruitment provided they employ strong participant verification protocols.
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