Participant recruitment in an online world: using blog comments and forum posts.
| dc.contributor.author | Eaton, Warren O. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lewycky, Samantha T. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-11T14:05:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-04-11T14:05:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The recruitment of participants to online research can be difficult when they must meet restrictive requirements, a situation we faced in recruiting the parents of 2-month-olds. Here we describe a new method, blog commenting, and compare it to the more common online technique of posting recruitment information on parent-oriented online forums. In the blog method, we searched blogs for infant-specific terms and phrases; we then read entries from those retrieved blogs and identified ones written by a parent of an appropriately aged infant. We then posted to the blog a comment in which we invited the parent to participate and to visit our research web site. Rates of study completion and most participant characteristics did not differ for blog- and forum-recruited participants. We discuss the particular strengths and weaknesses of blog recruiting and conclude that it is well suited for topics that people care to write about. | en |
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| dc.identifier.citation | Warren O. Eaton & Samantha T. Lewycky (2011). Participant recruitment in an online world: Using blog comments and forum posts. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4501 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | web research | en |
| dc.subject | infancy | en |
| dc.subject | methodology | en |
| dc.subject | response rate | en |
| dc.subject | motor attainment | en |
| dc.subject | online behaviour | en |
| dc.subject | milestone | en |
| dc.subject | rolling | en |
| dc.subject | yield rate | en |
| dc.title | Participant recruitment in an online world: using blog comments and forum posts. | en |
| dc.type | other | en_US |