Facebook Recruitment of Vaccine-Hesitant Canadian Parents: Cross-Sectional Study.
Jordan Lee TustinNatasha Sarah CrowcroftDionne GesinkIan JohnsonJennifer KeelanBarbara LachapellePublished in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2017)
We successfully recruited a large sample of our target population at low cost and achieved a high survey completion rate using Facebook. When compared with the RDD sampling strategy, we reached more vaccine-hesitant parents and younger parents with younger children-a population more likely to be making decisions on childhood immunizations. Facebook is a promising economical modality for reaching vaccine-hesitant parents for studies on the determinants of vaccine uptake.