The Adoption of Social Media to Recruit Participants for the Cool Runnings Randomized Controlled Trial in Australia.
Jacqueline D BurgessRoy M KimbleKerrianne WattCate M CameronPublished in: JMIR research protocols (2017)
To our knowledge, this is the first use of social media recruitment for an injury prevention campaign. This recruitment method resulted in the rapid and cost-effective recruitment of participants with social, geographic, and economic diversity that were largely representative of the population.