Beyond traditional advertisements: Leveraging Facebook's social structures for research recruitment

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2014, Pages e243-

  Valdez, Rupa S ^a   Guterbock, Thomas M ^a   Thompson, Morgan J ^a   Reilly, Jeremiah D ^a   Menefee, Hannah K ^a   Bennici, Maria S ^a,b   Williams, Ishan C ^c   Rexrode, Deborah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b SCIENCES PO   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Advertising; Consumer health IT; Ethnicity; Facebook; Participant recruitment; Social media

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CONSUMER HEALTH INFORMATION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84910151520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.3786     Document Type: Article

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