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

Introduction Romantic partners are crucial to successful smoking cessation, but the
mechanisms by which partners influence cessation is unclear. Research in this area has …

Background Choosing the right recruitment strategy has implications for the successful
conduct of a trial. Our objective was to compare a novel peer recruitment strategy to four …

Objectives To examine the effectiveness of different strategies for recruiting participants for a
large Australian randomised controlled trial (RCT), the Australian Study for the Prevention …

Background The prevalence of social media use among youth and young adults suggests it
is an appropriate platform for study recruitment from this population. Previous studies have …

Several theories posit that cannabis and other substances are used to reduce negative
affect. This daily report study considered whether variations in positive and negative affect …

This article presents an innovative, video-based approach to the recruitment of research
participants. A YouTube video was created and uploaded as part of a doctoral study …

Introduction Past research suggests that cannabis use is a risk factor for relapse in people
trying to quit smoking. Most people attempt to quit smoking without any assistance (ie, self …

Background Tobacco use is the largest preventable cause of death. Smoking cessation
interventions that use implementation intentions show promising results. Implementation …