Recruiting Young People for Digital Mental Health Research: Lessons From an AI-Driven Adaptive Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With increasing adoption of remote clinical trials in digital mental health, identifying cost-effective and time-efficient recruitment methodologies is crucial for the success of such trials. Evidence on whether web-based recruitment methods are more effective than traditional methods such as newspapers, media, or flyers is inconsistent. Here we present insights from our experience recruiting tertiary education students for a digital mental health artificial intelligence-driven adaptive trial-Vibe Up.

Objective

We evaluated the effectiveness of recruitment via Facebook and Instagram compared to traditional methods for a treatment trial and compared different recruitment methods' retention rates. With recruitment coinciding with COVID-19 lockdowns across Australia,

SUBMITTER: Zheng WY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11775482 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature