Exploring abortion attitudes of US adolescents and young adults using social media

Altshuler, Anna; Storey, Helen L.; Prager, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2014.11.009

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“…Facebook advertising can be more cost-effective and time-efficient than other internet recruitment methods (Loxton et al, 2015; Ramo & Prochaska, 2012; Ramo, Rodriguez, Chavez, Sommer, & Prochaska, 2014). Studies have used Facebook to successfully recruit adult participants (Batterham, 2014; Nelson, Hughes, Oakes, Pankow, & Kulasingam, 2014) as well as adolescent participants (Altshuler, Storey, & Prager, 2015; Chu & Snider, 2013; Ellis et al, 2012; Fenner et al, 2012; Gilligan, Kypri, & Bourke, 2014; Mustanski, Greene, Ryan, & Whitton, 2015). With the exception of Mustanski et al (2015), however, these studies were cross-sectional and did not require parental permission for adolescent participation.…”

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Using Facebook ads with traditional paper mailings to recruit adolescent girls for a clinical trial

Schwinn

Hopkins

Schinke

et al. 2017

Addictive Behaviors

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Introduction Clinical trials require sufficient samples recruited within limited time and budget constraints. Trials with minors are additionally burdened by the requirement for youth assent and parental permission. This paper details the use of Facebook ads and traditional paper mailings to enroll 797 adolescent girls for a longitudinal, web-based, drug abuse prevention trial. Data on sample representativeness and retention are also provided. Methods Facebook ads appeared on the pages of females aged 13 or 14 years who reside in the U.S. Ads linked girls to a recruitment website. Girls who wanted more information submitted contact information and were mailed information packets to their homes containing, among other things, youth assent and parent permission forms. Returned forms were verified for accuracy and validity. Results The Facebook ad campaign reached 2,267,848 girls and had a unique click-through rate of 3.0%. The campaign cost $41,202.37 with an average cost of $51.70 per enrolled girl. Information packets were mailed to 1,873 girls. Approximately one-half of girls returned the forms, and 797 girls were enrolled. The Facebook campaign's success varied by ad type, month, and day of the week. Baseline data revealed comparability to national data on demographic and substance use variables. Conclusions Results suggest that Facebook ads provide a useful initial point of access to unparalleled numbers of adolescents. Clinical trials may benefit from a two-fold recruitment strategy that uses online ads to attract interested adolescents followed by traditional recruitment methods to communicate detailed information to adolescents and parents.

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Using Facebook ads with traditional paper mailings to recruit adolescent girls for a clinical trial

Schwinn

Hopkins

Schinke

et al. 2017

Addictive Behaviors

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“…Numerous studies have used websites and social media to recruit participants (Adler et al, 2014;Altshuler, Gerns Storey, & Prager, 2015;Barratt et al, 2015;Bauermeister et al, 2012;Ben-Ezra et al, 2013;Camacho et al, 2013;Chaulk & Jones, 2011;Dal Moro, 2013;Harris et al, 2014;Hernandez-Romieu et al, 2014;Janiec, Zielicka-Hardy, Polkowska, Rogalska, & Sadkowska-Todys, 2012;Jones, Saksvig, Grieser, & Young, 2012;Klein, Thomas, & Sutter, 2007;Moreno, Grant, Kacvinsky, Egan, & Fleming, 2012;Schumacher et al, 2014;Stein et al, 2014;Sueki, 2015;Thomas, Heysell, Houpt, Moore, & Keller, 2014;Turbow, Kent, & Jiang, 2008; van Genderen, Slobbe, Koene, Mastenbroek, & Overbosch, 2013;Zhang, Bi, Hiller, & Lv, 2008;Zheluk, Quinn, & Meylakhs, 2014). Online recruitment is a convenient method of reaching samples for rare outcomes (Schumacher et al, 2014) or hidden or difficult to reach populations (Barratt et al, 2015;Hernandez-Romieu et al, 2014).…”

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“…Similar to Twitter, Facebook may be used for active or passive data collection. It has frequently been used to recruit participants (Altshuler et al, 2015;Barratt et al, 2015;Bauermeister et al, 2012;Ben-Ezra et al, 2013;Hernandez-Romieu et al, 2014;Schumacher et al, 2014;Stein et al, 2014;Thomas et al, 2014;van Genderen et al, 2013), but the information created by users has also been used for research.…”

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The potential use of social media and other internet-related data and communications for child maltreatment surveillance and epidemiological research: Scoping review and recommendations

Schwab‐Reese¹,

Hovdestad²,

Tonmyr³

et al. 2018

Child Abuse & Neglect

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Collecting child maltreatment data is a complicated undertaking for many reasons. As a result, there is an interest by child maltreatment researchers to develop methodologies that allow for the triangulation of data sources. To better understand how social media and internet-based technologies could contribute to these approaches, we conducted a scoping review to provide an overview of social media and internet-based methodologies for health research, to report results of evaluation and validation research on these methods, and to highlight studies with potential relevance to child maltreatment research and surveillance. Many approaches were identified in the broad health literature; however, there has been limited application of these approaches to child maltreatment. The most common use was recruiting participants or engaging existing participants using online methods. From the broad health literature, social media and internet-based approaches to surveillance and epidemiologic research appear promising. Many of the approaches are relatively low cost and easy to implement without extensive infrastructure, but there are also a range of limitations for each method. Several methods have a mixed record of validation and sources of error in estimation are not yet understood or predictable. In addition to the problems relevant to other health outcomes, child maltreatment researchers face additional challenges, including the complex ethical issues associated with both internet-based and child maltreatment research. If these issues are adequately addressed, social media and internet-based technologies may be a promising approach to reducing some of the limitations in existing child maltreatment data.

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“…Studies have also examined how adolescents define democracy and conceptualize different systems of government, such as democracies, meritocracies, and oligarchies (Flanagan, Gallay, Gill, Gallay, & Nti, 2005;Helwig, 2008). Empirical work has explored late adolescents' and emerging adults' budding political ideology (e.g., liberal vs. conservative ideology; Settle, Dawes, Christakis, & Fowler, 2010) and charted trends in youth's views of various social and political issues such as environmentalism, abortion, and race relations (Altshuler, Gerns Storey, & Prager, 2015;Oosterhoff, Wray-Lake, Palmer, & Kaplow, 2019; Wray-Lake, Flanagan, & Osgood, 2009). Taken together, findings indicate that adolescents are capable of evaluating and making judgments about politics and social issues.…”

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Adolescents’ Evaluations of Political Leaders: The Case of President Donald Trump

Metzger

Alvis

Romm

et al. 2020

J of Research on Adolesc

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The current study explored youths’ views of President Donald Trump using quantitative ratings and open‐ended responses from a diverse sample of 1,432 U.S. adolescents from three geographic regions. Adolescent demographic characteristics (i.e., gender, race, geographic location) were systematically associated with their views about Trump. Open‐ended responses demonstrated substantial variability in youths’ rationales for approving or disapproving of the president. Adolescents' attitudes were informed by knowledge of the president’s leadership attributes, political views and policies, and their own experiences. Findings indicate that adolescents draw upon and synthesize a broad range of information when formulating their political views and coordinate this knowledge with their own opinions and experiences when evaluating political figures.

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Exploring abortion attitudes of US adolescents and young adults using social media

Cited by 52 publications

References 21 publications

Using Facebook ads with traditional paper mailings to recruit adolescent girls for a clinical trial

Using Facebook ads with traditional paper mailings to recruit adolescent girls for a clinical trial

The potential use of social media and other internet-related data and communications for child maltreatment surveillance and epidemiological research: Scoping review and recommendations

Adolescents’ Evaluations of Political Leaders: The Case of President Donald Trump

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