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 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 …

Facebook is rapidly gaining recognition as a powerful research tool for the social sciences. It
constitutes a large and diverse pool of participants, who can be selectively recruited for both …

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 …

Objective: Social media, web and mobile technologies are increasingly used in healthcare
and directly support patient-centered care. Patients benefit from disease self-management …

Digital health is a field that aims to improve patient care through the use of technology, such
as telemedicine, mobile health, electronic health records, and artificial intelligence. The aim …

Rare disease drug development is a rapidly expanding field. Clinical researchers in rare
diseases face many challenges when conducting trials in small populations. Disease natural …

Highlights•There is much potential for use of Facebook in health-related research and
program delivery.•We review studies that have used Facebook to recruit diverse samples …

Background Researchers are increasingly using social media to recruit participants to
surveys and clinical studies. However, the evidence of the efficacy and validity of adolescent …

Background There are many challenges in recruiting and engaging participants when
conducting research, especially with HIV-positive individuals. Some of these challenges …