Facebook Recruitment for Children with Advanced Cancer and Their Parents: Lessons from a Web-based Pediatric Palliative Intervention Study.
Participant recruitment for pediatric palliative intervention studies is a chronic challenge for researchers. Digital recruitment strategies, or digital technology-assisted recruitment methods used to remotely reach and enroll research subjects, can help address these recruitment challenges for pedi...
| Published in: | Progress in Palliative Care Vol. 29; no. 5; pp. 264 - 272 |
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| Format: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oct 2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=152932043&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 152932043 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09699260 131V jtl: Progress in Palliative Care issn: 09699260 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Oct 2021 vid: 29 iid: 5 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 152932043 149525057 152932043 152932043 10.1080/09699260.2021.1898077 152932043 ppf: 264 ppct: 8 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Facebook Recruitment for Children with Advanced Cancer and Their Parents: Lessons from a Web-based Pediatric Palliative Intervention Study. aug: au: Cho, Eunji Gilmer, Mary Jo Friedman, Debra L. Hendricks-Ferguson, Verna L. Hinds, Pamela S. Akard, Terrah Foster affil: School of Nursing, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA sug: subj: Childhood Neoplasms Parents Research Subject Recruitment Human Child Adolescence Palliative Care Research Personnel Advertising Child: 6-12 years Adolescent: 13-18 years ab: Participant recruitment for pediatric palliative intervention studies is a chronic challenge for researchers. Digital recruitment strategies, or digital technology-assisted recruitment methods used to remotely reach and enroll research subjects, can help address these recruitment challenges for pediatric palliative care clinical trials. This study (a) describes Facebook recruitment procedures targeting children with cancer and their parents for a pediatric palliative intervention randomized clinical trial, (b) reports recruitment results, and (c) discusses successful strategies to recruit pediatric populations via Facebook advertisements. Researchers used Facebook advertisements to recruit children with advanced cancer (aged 7–17 years) for a web-based legacy intervention. Between years 2015 and 2018, our research team enrolled 150 child–parent dyads (N = 300) to participate in the web-based legacy program. Results suggest that Facebook advertisements can be a successful tool to access and recruit pediatric populations with life-threatening conditions. Further research is needed to determine how innovative social-media recruitment strategies could be used in other populations of patients with serious illnesses and their caregivers to further advance the science in palliative care. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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