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. 2016 Mar 18;2(1):e13. doi: 10.2196/publichealth.5366

Table 3.

Overview of the number of study participants recruited in the first trimester (T1) by each of the paid advertisement methods stratified by study location.

Advertisement Methods Denmark Netherlands Poland United Kingdom Total
Total participants recruited by
paid advertising n
614 446 125 682 1867
Total recruited in T1
n (% of total)
299 (48.7%) 47 (9.87%) 28 (22.4%) 68 (10.0%) 442 (23.7%)
Website n T1/total by method (%) 296/594 (49.8%) 6/32 (18.8%) 8/22 (36.4%) 7/20 (35.0%) 317/668 (47.5%)a
Email n T1/total by method (%) 3/20 (15.0%) 13/346 (3.8%) 11/47 (23.4%) 45/582 (7.7%) 72/995 (7.2%)
Leaflet n T1/total by method (%) - 28/68 (41.2%) 9/47 (19.1%) 16/79 (20.3%) 53/194 (27.3%)
Television n T1/total by method (%) - - 0/9 (0.0%) - 0/9 (0.0%)
Paid Social Median T1/total by method (%) - - - 0/1 (0.0%) 0/1 (0.0%)

aPoisson regression (P<.001) identifies a significant difference in the proportion of first trimester study participants recruited between the website, email, and leaflet advertisement methods, driven by the high proportion of first trimester participants recruited by website advertisements.