Recruiting for health, medical or psychosocial research using Facebook: Systematic review.

ABSTRACT: 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 networking website Facebook. A systematic review was conducted to identify studies that have used Facebook to recruit participants of all ages, to any psychosocial, health or medical research. 110 unique studies that used Facebook as a recruitment source were included in the review. The majority of studies used a cross-sectional design (80%) and addressed a physical health or disease issue (57%). Half (49%) of the included studies reported specific details of the Facebook recruitment process. Researchers paid between $1.36 and $110 per completing participants (Mean = $17.48, SD = $23.06). Among studies that examined the

SUBMITTER: Thornton L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6096238 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature