Accelerating Research With Technology: Rapid Recruitment for a Large-Scale Web-Based Sleep Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Participant recruitment can be a significant bottleneck in carrying out research studies. Connected health and mobile health platforms allow for the development of Web-based studies that can offer improvement in this domain. Sleep is of vital importance to the mental and physical health of all individuals, yet is understudied on a large scale or beyond the focus of sleep disorders. For this reason and owing to the availability of digital sleep tracking tools, sleep is well suited to being studied in a Web-based environment.

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate a method for speeding up the recruitment process and maximizing participant engagement using a novel approach, the Achievement Studies platform (Evidation Health, Inc, San Mateo, CA, USA), whil

SUBMITTER: Deering S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6360390 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature