Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

Christensen, T.; Riis, Anders H.; Hatch, Elizabeth E.; Wise, Lauren A.; Nielsen, Marie Germund; Rothman, Kenneth J.; Sørensen, Henrik Toft; Mikkelsen, Ellen M.

doi:10.2196/jmir.6716

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“…An online survey was created utilizing the Qualtrics survey platform (Qualtrics, ). Research suggests that online recruitment methods are superior to offline methods in terms of efficiency and cost (Christensen, Riis, Hatch, Wise, & Marie, ) and result in larger voice‐hearing sample sizes (Berry, Band, Corcoran, Barrowclough, & Wearden, ; Lawrence, Jones, & Cooper, ). Those choosing to take part in the survey were asked to read the study information and provide informed consent prior.…”

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Shame, social deprivation, and the quality of the voice‐hearing relationship

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Objectives. Many individuals hold different beliefs about the voices that they hear and have distinct relationships with them, the nature of which may determine the distress experienced. Understanding what factors contribute to these beliefs and relationships and consequently the resulting distress is important. The current research examined whether shame and social deprivation, in a sample of adult voice-hearers, were related to the relationships that individuals had with their voices or the beliefs that they held about them.Design. The study utilized a cross-sectional, Internet-based design.Methods. Eighty-seven adult voice-hearers from England were recruited to the online survey. Participants completed measures regarding shame, beliefs about voices, and relationships with voices and provided demographic information and postcodes that were used to refer to Index of Multiple Deprivation data.Results. Social deprivation and shame were not associated. Shame was positively associated with variables describing negative voice-hearing beliefs/relationships but not positive voice-hearing beliefs/relationships. Principal component analysis on the eight voice-hearing variables yielded two components related to positive and negative voicehearing qualities. A multiple regression conducted on the two components identified that shame was only associated with negative voice-hearing qualities.Conclusions. The results suggest that therapies that target shame may be helpful when working with negative voice-hearing beliefs and relationships. Future research should utilize experimental or longitudinal designs to examine the direction of the relationship. Practitioner pointsThe results contribute to the limited research evidence available regarding the relationship between shame and voice-hearing.

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“…Adam et al [60] recruited almost 10 times the number of pregnant women per day using social media than through traditional recruitment methods similar to those employed in the current study, but also found that women recruited via social media were less likely to participate in their trial comparing counseling to standard care for management of appropriate pregnancy-related weight gain. Similarly, Christensen et al, [61] recruited women trying to conceive to a nutrition and lifestyle study. They used o ine and online methods to recruit, including Facebook ads.…”

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The Food, Feelings, and Family Study: Comparison of the efficacy of traditional methods, social media, and broadcast email to recruit pregnant women to an observational, longitudinal nutrition study.

Smith¹,

Alvarez²,

Crixell³

et al. 2020

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Background: It is well known that recruitment is a challenging aspect of any study involving human subjects. This challenge is exacerbated when the population sought is reticent to participate in research as is the case with pregnant women and individuals with depression. This paper compares recruitment methods used for the Food, Feelings, and Family Study, an observational, longitudinal study concerning how diet and bisphenol A exposure affect maternal mood and cognitive function during and after pregnancy.Methods: Pregnant women were recruited to this study using traditional methods, social media including paid and unpaid posts, and emails broadcast to the university community. Contingency analysis using the Pearson’s Chi-square test was used to determine if recruitment method was associated with likelihood of participation. T-tests were used to analyze Facebook advertisement success. ANOVAs and contingency analysis using the maximum likelihood ratio Chi-square test were used to determine if recruitment method was related to continuous and categorical demographics, respectively.Results: Social media resulted in the largest number of recruits, followed by traditional methods and broadcast email. Women recruited through social media were less likely to participate, in part, because they were less likely to meet eligibility criteria. In contrast, use of broadcast email resulted in a smaller pool of recruits but these recruits were more likely to be eligible for and complete the study. Most women recruited via social media were the result of unpaid posts to the study’s Facebook page. Paid posts lasting at least 4 days were the most successful. Recruitment method was not associated with participant demographics.Conclusions: Social media has the potential to recruit a large pool of potential subjects; however, when studies require a large time investment such as the case here, women recruited through social media are less likely to participate and complete the study than women recruited through other means.Trial registration: N/A. This study does not describe a health care intervention.

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“…Targeted advertisements (e.g., filtered by age, gender, and smartphone usage) ensures that advertisements will reach the target group. While online recruitment is not necessarily superior to offline recruitment, the combination of both approaches was found to be optimal for achieving a representative sample ( 39 ). Therefore, efforts will be undertaken to recruit participants in the community, including placing newspaper advertisements, emails to health professionals and civic organizations, media and press releases at Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin.…”

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Supportive Mental Health Self-Monitoring among Smartphone Users with Psychological Distress: Protocol for a Fully Mobile Randomized Controlled Trial

Beiwinkel

Hey²,

Bock

et al. 2017

Front. Public Health

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Mobile health (mHealth) could be widely used in the population to improve access to psychological treatment. In this paper, we describe the development of a mHealth intervention on the basis of supportive self-monitoring and describe the protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate its effectiveness among smartphone users with psychological distress. Based on power analysis, a representative quota sample of N = 186 smartphone users will be recruited, with an over-sampling of persons with moderate to high distress. Over a 4-week period, the intervention will be compared to a self-monitoring without intervention group and a passive control group. Telephone interviews will be conducted at baseline, post-intervention (4 weeks), and 12-week follow-up to assess study outcomes. The primary outcome will be improvement of mental health. Secondary outcomes will include well-being, intentions toward help-seeking and help-seeking behavior, user activation, attitudes toward mental-health services, perceived stigmatization, smartphone app quality, user satisfaction, engagement, and adherence with the intervention. Additionally, data from the user’s daily life as collected during self-monitoring will be used to investigate risk and protective factors of mental health in real-world settings. Therefore, this study will allow us to demonstrate the effectiveness of a smartphone application as a widely accessible and low-cost intervention to improve mental health on a population level. It also allows to identify new assessment approaches in the field of psychiatric epidemiology.

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Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

Cited by 83 publications

References 29 publications

Shame, social deprivation, and the quality of the voice‐hearing relationship

Shame, social deprivation, and the quality of the voice‐hearing relationship

The Food, Feelings, and Family Study: Comparison of the efficacy of traditional methods, social media, and broadcast email to recruit pregnant women to an observational, longitudinal nutrition study.

Supportive Mental Health Self-Monitoring among Smartphone Users with Psychological Distress: Protocol for a Fully Mobile Randomized Controlled Trial

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