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 …

Background Obtaining access to a demographically and geographically diverse sample for
health-related research can be costly and time consuming. Previous studies have reported …

Background Facebook has shown promise as an economical means of recruiting
participants for health research. However, few studies have evaluated this recruitment …

Background Social media tools have provided health researchers with the opportunity to
engage with communities and groups in a nonconventional manner to recruit participants for …

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 …

Background Facebook (FB) has been widely used recently to recruit participants for adult
health research. However, little is known about its effectiveness, cost, and the characteristics …

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

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 Recruiting an adequate number of participants into medical research studies is
challenging for many researchers. Over the past 10 years, the use of social media websites …