Facebook as a tool for respondent tracing

Schneider, Sid J.; Burke‐Garcia, Amelia; Thomas, Geoffrey

doi:10.29115/sp-2015-0003

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“…While refusal rates hover at around 15% for all past efforts, more effort should be placed on improving response rates among nonrefusers who did not participate in the study. This will include collaborating with coroners and medical examiners to improve the quality of contact information collected from next of kin, locating respondents via other sources (e.g., ), and following best practices on maximizing response rates in postal , and telephone efforts, the primary strategies used for recruitment in our study.…”

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Violence, Guns, and Suicide in New Orleans: Results from a Qualitative Study of Recent Suicide Decedents

Ramchand

Franklin²,

Thornton³

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Journal of Forensic Sciences

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Many Americans own guns to protect themselves against other people, but there is evidence that both victimization and gun access increase suicide risk. We conducted qualitative interviews with informants of 17 suicide cases in New Orleans of the 60 who died between January 2015 and April 2016 to understand the relationship between past trauma, gun access and storage, and suicide. Nine cases had experienced a past trauma, including three who had recently had a family member killed by homicide. Eight died via firearm; of those, seven owned the guns they used to take their lives and stored them locked (but loaded) at home or in their cars. Preventing community violence and addressing its sequelae may be important for reducing suicides. A multi-pronged strategy consisting of policies, education, and marketing will likely be needed to address the risk of suicide conferred by gun access.

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confidence: 99%

Violence, Guns, and Suicide in New Orleans: Results from a Qualitative Study of Recent Suicide Decedents

Ramchand

Franklin²,

Thornton³

et al. 2018

Journal of Forensic Sciences

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“…Evidence suggests that child and parent samples can be recruited more efficiently and at a lower cost online than offline, and may result in a sample that is representative of the target population, or which has similar representativeness to studies using offline recruitment methods [ 21 – 23 ]. The internet also has potential to reduce attrition and non-response bias in longitudinal research with children and parents [ 13 , 24 , 25 ]. Posting on study websites or directly messaging participants on social media can maintain contact with study cohorts and send calls-to-action at appropriate times (e.g., for measure completion), while internet search engines and the search features of social networking sites can be used to trace participants who have been lost to follow-up.…”

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Ethical issues in using the internet to engage participants in family and child research: A scoping review

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BackgroundThe internet is an increasingly popular tool in family and child research that is argued to pose new ethical challenges, yet few studies have systematically assessed the ethical issues of engaging parents and children in research online. This scoping review aims to identify and integrate evidence on the ethical issues reported when recruiting, retaining and tracing families and children in research online, and to identify ethical guidelines for internet research.MethodsAcademic literature was searched using electronic academic databases (Scopus, PsycINFO, Embase, ERIC, CINAHL and Informit) and handsearching reference lists for articles published in English between January 2006 and February 2016. Grey literature was searched using Google to identify relevant ethical guidelines.ResultsSixty-five academic articles were included after screening 3,537 titles and abstracts and 205 full-text articles. Most articles reported using the internet to recruit participants (88%) with few reporting online retention (12%) or tracing (10%). Forty percent commented on ethical issues; the majority did not discuss ethics beyond general consent or approval procedures. Some ethical concerns were specific to engaging minors online, including parental consent, age verification and children’s vulnerability. Other concerns applied when engaging any research participant online, including privacy and confidentiality, informed consent and disparities in internet access. Five professional guidelines and 10 university guidelines on internet research ethics were identified. Few academic articles (5%) reported using these guidelines.ConclusionsEngaging families and children in research online introduces unique challenges requiring careful consideration. While researchers regarded themselves as responsible for ensuring research is conducted ethically, lack of use of available guidelines and limited academic literature suggests internet research is occurring without suitable guidance. We recommend broad dissemination of ethical guidelines and encourage researchers to report the methodological and ethical issues of using the internet to engage families and children in research.

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“…Facebook's potential as a medium to locate the hard-to-reach was demonstrated in a 2015 Survey Practice article, "Facebook as a tool for respondent tracing" (Schneider et al 2015). Remarkably, the authors noted that at the time of their article, over "160 million people in the United States ha[d] Facebook accounts," and unlike a person's home address, telephone number or email, those profiles are substantially stable over time (Schneider et al 2015). Using Facebook's huge membership pool, those authors detailed the process of contacting former foster care youth who had been randomly selected for a longitudinal evaluation of a prior intervention.…”

Section: On Recruiting Through Social Networkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After combing public records failed, the researchers searched through Facebook by examining "individual profiles for clues to the Facebook users' identities," such as birth date, high school, and physical location. Eventually, the researchers were able to locate and interview 20 of 33 (slightly over 60%) of the respondents searched through Facebook (Schneider et al 2015).…”

Section: On Recruiting Through Social Networkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We therefore sought out alternative forms of respondent recruitment, and more specifically, began to examine social networking sites as vehicles for identifying our target sample (Bhutta 2012;Rife et al 2016;Schneider et al 2015). Facebook, the obvious first choice, appeared promising in that we could display our recruitment notice with relative efficiency to those users in our desired geographic regions who met the age requirement for having experienced a gray divorce.…”

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Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Populations: The Utility of Facebook for Recruiting Qualitative In-Depth Interviewees

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Facebook as a tool for respondent tracing

Cited by 10 publications

References 13 publications

Violence, Guns, and Suicide in New Orleans: Results from a Qualitative Study of Recent Suicide Decedents

Violence, Guns, and Suicide in New Orleans: Results from a Qualitative Study of Recent Suicide Decedents

Ethical issues in using the internet to engage participants in family and child research: A scoping review

Recruiting Hard-to-Reach Populations: The Utility of Facebook for Recruiting Qualitative In-Depth Interviewees

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