Social Media Use for Research Participant Recruitment: Integrative Literature Review.

ABSTRACT:

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 health research. Using social media to advertise research opportunities and recruit participants facilitates accessibility to participants from broad geographical areas and diverse populations. However, little guidance is provided by ethics review boards for researchers to effectively use this recruitment method in their research.

Objective

This study sought to explore the literature on the use of social media for participant recruitment for research studies and identify the best practices for recruiting participants using this method.

Methods

An integrative review approach was used to synthes

SUBMITTER: Darko EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9389385 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature