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 …

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 …

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 …

Fewer than 1 in 20 adult cancer patients enroll in cancer clinical trials. But although barriers
to trial participation have been the subject of frequent study, the rate of trial participation has …

Social media has recently gained tremendous fame as a highly impactful channel of
communication in these modern times of digitised living. It has been put on a pedestal …

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 …

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 Challenges exist in recruiting an international sample of clinicians and
researchers to an online survey. Traditional recruitment methods remain relevant but issues …

Background Recruiting participants into clinical trials continues to be a challenge, which can
result in study delay or termination. Recent studies have used social media to enhance …