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 …

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 …

As the popularity and diversity of social media platforms increases so does their utility for
health research. Using social media for recruitment into clinical studies and/or delivering …

Since its earliest days, the field of behavioral medicine has leveraged technology to
increase the reach and effectiveness of its interventions. Here, we highlight key areas of …

Background: Mobile health (mHealth) apps provide an opportunity for easy, just-in-time
access to health promotion and self-management support. However, poor user engagement …

Background: Social media, including mobile technologies and social networking sites, are
being used increasingly as part of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention and …

Background: Recruiting participants for research studies can be difficult and costly. The
popularity of social media platforms (eg, Facebook) has seen corresponding growth in the …

LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) individuals are at significantly higher
risk for mental health challenges than the general population. Social media and online …

Background: Well-designed clinical research needs to obtain information that is applicable
to the general population. However, most current studies fail to include substantial cohorts of …