The Role of Social Media in Enhancing Clinical Trial Recruitment: Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

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 recruitment outcomes. An assessment of the literature on the use of social media for this purpose is required.

Objective

This study aims to answer the following questions: (1) How is the use of social media, in combination with traditional approaches to enhance clinical trial recruitment and enrollment, represented in the literature? and (2) Do the data on recruitment and enrollment outcomes presented in the literature allow for comparison across studies?

Methods

We conducted a comprehensive literature search across 7 platforms to identify clinical trials that combined social media and tra

SUBMITTER: Darmawan I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7652693 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature