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From: pschleck@panix.com (Paul W. Schleck)
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Subject: Challenges of Internet Recruitment: A Case Study with Disappointing Results
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2025 13:41:08 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
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"Overall, the recruitment rate was disappointingly low. In our case, >recruitment using Internet technologies including email, electronic >discussion boards, Usenet forums, and websites did not prove to be an >effective approach for soliciting young subjects to participate in our >research." >https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicUsenet/comments/1iidfqk/challenges_of_internet_recruitment_a_case_study/
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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15829478/
Randomized Controlled Trial
J Med Internet Res
2005 Mar 19;7(1):e6.
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doi: 10.2196/jmir.7.1.e6.
Challenges of internet recruitment: a case study with disappointing results >Abstract
Background: The Internet provides tremendous opportunities for innovative >research, but few publications on the use of the Internet for recruiting >study participants exist. This paper summarizes our experiences from 2 >studies in which we attempted to to recruit teenagers on the Internet for >a questionnaire study to evaluate a smoking-cessation website.
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Objective: To evaluate strategies of recruiting teenagers for the >evaluation of a smoking-cessation website through the Internet.
Methods: In Study 1 (Defined Community Recruitment), we sent invitation >emails to registered members of a youth health website, CyberIsle. A total >of 3801 email addresses were randomly divided into 2 groups. In the first >group, emails indicated that the first 30 respondents would receive a Can >dollars 20 electronic gift certificate for use at an online bookstore if >they would go to the Smoking Zine website and respond to a short survey. >For the second group, the email also indicated that respondents would
receive an additional Can dollars 10 gift certificate if they referred >their friends to the study. Reminder emails were sent 10 days after the >sending of the initial invitation email. In Study 2 (Open Recruitment), we >posted invitation messages on Web discussion boards, Usenet forums, and
one specialized recruitment website, and attempted a snowball recruiting >strategy. When potential participants arrived at the study site, they were >automatically randomized into either the higher incentives group (Can >dollars 15 electronic gift certificate) or lower incentive group (Can >dollars 5 gift certificate).
Results: In Study 1 (defined community recruitment), 2109 emails were >successfully delivered. Only 5 subjects (0.24%), including 1 referred by a >friend, passed the recruitment process and completed the questionnaire; a >further 6 individuals visited the information page of the study but did
not complete the study. In Study 2 (open recruitment), the number of users >seeing the advertisement is unknown. A total of 35 users arrived at the >website, of whom 14 participants were recruited (8 from the Can dollars 15 >gift certificate group and 6 from the Can dollars 5 gift certificate
group). Another 5 were recruited from the general Internet community (3
from discussion boards and 2 from the Research Volunteers website). The >remaining 9 participants were recruited through friend referrals with the >snowball strategy.
Conclusions: Overall, the recruitment rate was disappointingly low. In >our case, recruitment using Internet technologies including email, >electronic discussion boards, Usenet forums, and websites did not prove to >be an effective approach for soliciting young subjects to participate in >our research. Possible reasons are discussed, including the participants' >perspective. A major challenge is to differentiate trustable and
legitimate messages from spam and fraudulent misinformation on the >Internet. From the researchers' perspective, approaches are needed to >engage larger samples, to verify participants' attributes, and to evaluate >and adjust for potential biases associated with Internet recruitment.
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