Recruitment via the Internet and Social Networking Sites: The 1989-1995 Cohort of the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health

• Main Authors: Mishra, Gita Devi (Author), Hockey, Richard (Author), Powers, Jennifer (Author), Loxton, Deborah (Author), Tooth, Leigh (Author), Rowlands, Ingrid (Author), Byles, Julie (Author), Dobson, Annette (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: JMIR Publications, 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundFaced with the challenge of recruiting young adults for health studies, researchers have increasingly turned to the Internet and social networking sites, such as Facebook, as part of their recruitment strategy. As yet, few large-scale studies are available that report on the characteristic...