Exploring the viability of using online social media advertising as a recruitment method for smoking cessation clinical trials

Nicotine and Tobacco Research

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 247-251

  Frandsen, Mai ^a   Walters, Julia ^a   Ferguson, Stuart G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLYER; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL STATUS; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDS; TOBACCO USE DISORDER; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TASMANIA; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84891667681     PISSN: 14622203     EISSN: 1469994X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ntr/ntt157     Document Type: Article

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