Using Facebook and LinkedIn to Recruit Nurses for an Online Survey

Facebook Platform as the Social Business and Marketing Model for Cosmetic Surgery: An Online Study

Broad Reach and Targeted Recruitment Using Facebook for an Online Survey of Young Adult Substance Use

BACKGROUND Studies of tobacco use and other health behaviors have reported great challenges in recruiting young adults. Social media is widely used by young adults in the United States and represents a potentially fast, affordable method of recruiting study participants for survey research. OBJECTIVE The present study examined Facebook as a mechanism to reach and survey young adults about tob...

Gone for good? An online survey of emigrant health professionals using Facebook as a recruitment tool

BACKGROUND Health professionals, particularly doctors, nurses and midwives, are in high demand worldwide. Therefore, it is important to assess the future plans and likelihood of return of emigrating health professionals. Nevertheless, health professionals are, by definition, a difficult population to track/survey. This exploratory study reports on the migration intentions of a sample of doctors...

Can Facebook Be Used for Research? Experiences Using Facebook to Recruit Pregnant Women for a Randomized Controlled Trial

BACKGROUND Recruitment is often a difficult and costly part of any human research study. Social media and other emerging means of mass communication hold promise as means to complement traditional strategies used for recruiting participants because they can reach a large number of people in a short amount of time. With the ability to target a specified audience, paid Facebook advertisements hav...

Exploring attitudes to online grieving on Facebook through survey research

The research explores the process of grieving in an online environment, aiming to answer the question of how users perceive grieving practices on Facebook. The article is based on a survey of Facebook users, in which they estimate the importance of the topic and anonymously share their personal experiences related to death on Facebook. The survey aims to define how age, Facebook experience (fre...