Background Social media is a popular online tool that allows users to communicate and
exchange information. It allows digital content such as pictures, videos and websites to be …

Recruiting participants is a challenge for many health, medical and psychosocial research
projects. One tool more frequently being used to improve recruitment is the social …

The use of social media as a recruitment tool for research with humans is increasing, and
likely to continue to grow. Despite this, to date there has been no specific regulatory …

Recruiting participants is a necessary step in many studies. With the advent of online
research techniques, scientists are looking for new places where participants can be …

Background: Social media are dynamic and interactive computer-mediated communication
tools that have high penetration rates in the general population in high-income and middle …

Background Recruitment for clinical trials continues to be a challenge, as patient recruitment
is the single biggest cause of trial delays. Around 80% of trials fail to meet the initial …

Background Social media holds exciting promise for advancing mental health research
recruitment, however, the extent and efficacy to which these platforms are currently in use …

Background Internet and mobile health (mHealth) apps hold promise for expanding the
reach of evidence-based health interventions. Research in this area is rapidly expanding …

The rise of social media websites (eg, Facebook) and online services such as Google
AdWords and Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) offers new opportunities for researchers to …

Postal and telephone survey research is threatened by declining response rates and high
cost. Online recruitment is becoming more popular, although there is little empirical …