ArticleFrontiers in digital health2026
Digital and traditional recruitment strategies and participation patterns in the multicenter Healthy Brain Ageing study.
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Background: Early detection of Parkinson's disease (PD) benefits from innovative approaches such as large-scale online surveys on different risk factors in the general population. Effective dissemination is essential, yet little is known about the relative reach and recruitment patterns of different strategies. Objective: To describe dissemination strategies used in the multicenter Healthy Brain Ageing (HeBA) study and characterize center-specific recruitment-source, web-access, demographic, and survey-completion patterns across three European centers. Methods: Data from three centers (Barcelona, Spain; Luxembourg, Luxembourg; and Innsbruck, Austria) aiming at remotely identifying PD risk factors and prodromal symptoms were analyzed. Dissemination strategies were categorized as digital or traditional. Descriptive statistics summarized dissemination strategies, geographic web-access patterns, linguistic adaptation, recruitment sources, and survey completion. Results: At the campaign level, digital dissemination predominated in Barcelona (55.7%) and Luxembourg (53.3%), whereas Innsbruck used a slightly higher proportion of traditional campaigns (52.2%). Participant-reported recruitment sources showed center-specific patterns: digital advertising was the most frequent reported source in Barcelona (62.5%), flyers or invitation letters in Luxembourg (39.3%), and radio or television in Innsbruck (31.4%). Sex-based recruitment differences were significant in Luxembourg ( Conclusions: Recruitment-related patterns differed across centers and reflected locally implemented combinations of digital and traditional dissemination channels. These findings suggest that recruitment strategies for large-scale online health studies may benefit from considering local media ecosystems, language contexts, and digital participation patterns.
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