Table 4.
Enrollment rates by recruitment method.a
Study authors (year) | Enrolled from social media, % | Enrolled from traditional methods, % | Enrolled from other online media, % |
Abbate et al (2017) [20] | 16 | 40 | 57 |
Adam et al (2016) [21] | 36 | 64 | N/Ab |
Alley et alc (2016) [22] | 53d | 47e | N/A |
Bracken et al (2019) [23] | 2 | 94 | 1 |
Buckingham et al (2017) [24] | 50 | 26 | 24 |
Burrell et al (2012) [25] | 23 | 77e | N/A |
Frandsen et al (2014) [27] | 52 | 47 | N/A |
Frandsen et al (2016) [9] | 53 | 47 | N/A |
Guthrie et al (2019) [28] | 8 | 92 | N/A |
Heffner et al (2013) [29] | 5 | 25 | 70 |
Huesch et al (2018) [30] | 65 | 35 | N/A |
Ince et al (2014) [31] | 78 | 2 | 0 |
Jones et al (2012) [32] | 7 | 94 | N/A |
Jones et al (2017) [33] | 62 | 38 | N/A |
Juraschek et al (2018) [34] | 3 | 77 | N/A |
Kayrouz et al (2016) [10] | 86 | 14 | N/A |
Kendall et al (2018) [35] | 33 | 67 | N/A |
Kira et al (2016) [36] | 4 | 88 | N/A |
Kuhn et al (2017) [37] | 18 | 22 | 60 |
Partridge et al (2015) [39] | 2 | 71 | 25 |
Rabin et al (2013) [40] | 0 | 100 | N/A |
Raviotta et al (2016) [41] | 20 | 80 | N/A |
Rounds et al (2019) [42] | 3 | 81 | 16 |
Sanchez et al (2018a) [43] | 0 | 19 | 5 |
Sanchez et al (2018b) [43] | 0 | 53 | 4 |
Volkova et al (2017) [46] | 43 | 46 | 11 |
Waltman et al (2019) [47] | 16 | 44 | 1 |
Watson et al (2018) [48] | 49 | 11 | 39 |
aSome studies allowed participants to be counted in multiple recruitment and enrollment methods.
bN/A: not applicable.
cItalics signify studies that reported the highest enrollment rates from social media.
dIncludes participants enrolled from targeted Facebook ads only.
eIncludes participants enrolled from both traditional and other online media.