Background Recruitment of young people for health research by traditional methods has
become more expensive and challenging over recent decades. The Internet presents an …

Background: In 2012, we set out to recruit a cohort of at least 10,000 women aged 18-23
from across Australia. With recent research demonstrating the inadequacy of traditional …

Background Faced with the challenge of recruiting young adults for health studies,
researchers have increasingly turned to the Internet and social networking sites, such as …

Background: The prevalence of social media makes it a potential alternative to traditional
offline methods of recruiting and engaging participants in health research. Despite …

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 …

Background: The Internet is widely used to conduct research studies on health issues. Many
different methods are used to recruit participants for such studies, but little is known about …

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 …

Background Recruitment is often a difficult and costly part of any human research study.
Social media and other emerging means of mass communication hold promise as means to …

Efficient and effective methods of recruiting participants for studies have characteristically
come with many challenges. The unprecedented rise of social media platforms such as …

Background: The Internet provides tremendous opportunities for innovative research, but
few publications on the use of the Internet for recruiting study participants exist. This paper …