Targeted facebook advertising is a novel and effective method of recruiting participants into a human papillomavirus vaccine effectiveness study

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Subasinghe, Asvini K ^a,b   Nguyen, Margaret ^a,c   Wark, John D ^c   Tabrizi, Sepehr N ^a,b,c   Garland, Suzanne M ^a,b,c  

^a ROYAL WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Facebook; HPV; Human papillomavirus; Online recruitment; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026392863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.5679     Document Type: Article

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