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Improving Recruitment Through Social Media and Web-Based Advertising to Evaluate the Genetic Risk and Long-Term Complications in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Community-Based Survey

Improving Recruitment Through Social Media and Web-Based Advertising to Evaluate the Genetic Risk and Long-Term Complications in Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis: Community-Based Survey

Using historical recruitment data from our community-based study of SJS/TEN survivors, we compared data both before and after implementation of social media and web-based recruitment methods. We recruited SJS/TEN survivors from the United States, aged 7-90 years, to participate in a remote study to assess genetic risk and long-term outcomes in SJS/TEN. Survivors across the United States, who saw or heard about our study, filled out an online interest survey.

Elizabeth A Williams, Michelle D Martin-Pozo, Alexis H Yu, Krystyna Daniels, Madeline Marks, April O'Connor, Elizabeth J Phillips

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e63712

Improving Accessibility for Work Opportunities for Adults With Autism in an End-to-End Supported Workplace Program: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Cohort Study

Improving Accessibility for Work Opportunities for Adults With Autism in an End-to-End Supported Workplace Program: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Cohort Study

A variety of barriers to successful employment outcomes for adults with autism have been identified at each stage of the recruitment and employment experience, including conventional hiring processes that are unsuited to candidates with autism, limited promotion of and requests for workplace accommodations, and a lack of employment-related and mental health supports [5,11,12].

Adam J Guastella, Lorna Hankin, Elizabeth Stratton, Nick Glozier, Elizabeth Pellicano, Vicki Gibbs

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e60806

Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

Challenging the Continued Usefulness of Social Media Recruitment for Surveys of Hidden Populations of People Who Use Opioids

However, these venue-based recruitment methods may introduce selection bias as certain racial or ethnic minorities and women may feel less comfortable in and around these spaces [6-10]. Internet-based recruitment may provide an alternative method for accessing certain hard-to-reach populations and stigmatized behaviors. The primary barrier to feasibility in internet-based recruitment is access to people who use opioids, given the highly stigmatized nature of drug use [4,5].

Elizabeth D Nesoff, Joseph J Palamar, Qingyue Li, Wenqian Li, Silvia S Martins

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e63687

Using Social Media to Engage and Enroll Underrepresented Populations: Longitudinal Digital Health Research

Using Social Media to Engage and Enroll Underrepresented Populations: Longitudinal Digital Health Research

Recruitment for the BUMP study was primarily conducted via 2 methods: genetic testing service subscriber recruitment (Sema4) and 4 Youand Me direct recruitment. Genetic testing service subscriber recruitment includes outreach to subscribers to genetic testing via Sema4’s patient portal. 4 Youand Me direct recruitment consists of 3 recruitment suboutlets: social media (including both paid and unpaid outreach), community partnerships, and others (eg, word of mouth, press, and Clinical Trials.gov; Figure 1).

Christiana Harry, Sarah Goodday, Carol Chapman, Emma Karlin, April Joy Damian, Alexa Brooks, Adrien Boch, Nelly Lugo, Rebecca McMillan, Jonell Tempero, Ella Swanson, Shannon Peabody, Diane McKenzie, Stephen Friend

JMIR Form Res 2025;9:e68093

Augmenting Insufficiently Accruing Oncology Clinical Trials Using Generative Models: Validation Study

Augmenting Insufficiently Accruing Oncology Clinical Trials Using Generative Models: Validation Study

Approximately, 25% of clinical trials are discontinued before completion [3], with insufficient recruitment being the most frequent reason in 31% of the cases [4]. For adult cancer trials, between 20% and 50% fail to complete or were unable to reach recruitment goals [5-9]. This has been exacerbated by the recent pandemic where many trials experienced a considerable reduction in recruitment rates [10-13], which has continued after the pandemic [12].

Samer El Kababji, Nicholas Mitsakakis, Elizabeth Jonker, Ana-Alicia Beltran-Bless, Gregory Pond, Lisa Vandermeer, Dhenuka Radhakrishnan, Lucy Mosquera, Alexander Paterson, Lois Shepherd, Bingshu Chen, William Barlow, Julie Gralow, Marie-France Savard, Christian Fesl, Dominik Hlauschek, Marija Balic, Gabriel Rinnerthaler, Richard Greil, Michael Gnant, Mark Clemons, Khaled El Emam

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e66821

Assessing Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Targeted Social Media Users Using an Infotainment Video About a Cancer Clinical Trial: Population-Based Descriptive Study

Assessing Health Information Seeking Behaviors Among Targeted Social Media Users Using an Infotainment Video About a Cancer Clinical Trial: Population-Based Descriptive Study

Although research organizations have passively disseminated clinical trial–related content on social media platforms, this very active and intentional campaign to engage with the public is promising as it relates to clinical trial recruitment and illustrates the utility of using engaging digital content coupled with social media marketing as an effective strategy for clinical trial recruitment.

Jonathan Sommers, Don S Dizon, Mark A Lewis, Erik Stone, Richard Andreoli, Vida Henderson

JMIR Cancer 2025;11:e56098

Enhancing Text Message Support With Media Literacy and Financial Incentives for Vaping Cessation in Young Adults: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Enhancing Text Message Support With Media Literacy and Financial Incentives for Vaping Cessation in Young Adults: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

If the recruitment goal of 80 participants is not met after exhausting the initial participant list, the research team will directly contact potential participants via phone calls. In addition, we will implement a social media recruitment strategy by posting study advertisements on platforms such as Facebook (Meta), Instagram (Meta), or X (formerly Twitter).

Tzeyu Michaud, Troy Puga, Rex Archer, Elijah Theye, Cleo Zagurski, Paul Estabrooks, Hongying Daisy Dai

JMIR Res Protoc 2025;14:e60527

Detecting Deception and Ensuring Data Integrity in a Nationwide mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Factorial Design Survey Study

Detecting Deception and Ensuring Data Integrity in a Nationwide mHealth Randomized Controlled Trial: Factorial Design Survey Study

Given the relatively large scale of our digitally mediated recruitment methods, the low risk involved in study participation, considerable financial compensation, and robust practices for ultimately verifying participants’ identity, this study provided unique insight into how deceptive practices may be occurring in large, remotely delivered behavioral studies, as well as how to mitigate their impact.

Krista M Kezbers, Michael C Robertson, Emily T Hébert, Audrey Montgomery, Michael S Businelle

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e66384

Recruiting Young People for Digital Mental Health Research: Lessons From an AI-Driven Adaptive Trial

Recruiting Young People for Digital Mental Health Research: Lessons From an AI-Driven Adaptive Trial

However, compared to traditional randomized controlled trials (RCTs), AI-adaptive trials face an increased risk of insufficient and untimely enrollment due to the need for frequent, short-spanned recruitment drives (eg, monthly recruitment drives over a year). Hence, identifying recruitment methodologies that are both cost-effective and time-efficient is crucial for the success of such trials. What recruitment methods are currently used and how do they compare with each other?

Wu Yi Zheng, Artur Shvetcov, Aimy Slade, Zoe Jenkins, Leonard Hoon, Alexis Whitton, Rena Logothetis, Smrithi Ravindra, Stefanus Kurniawan, Sunil Gupta, Kit Huckvale, Eileen Stech, Akash Agarwal, Joost Funke Kupper, Stuart Cameron, Jodie Rosenberg, Nicholas Manoglou, Manisha Senadeera, Svetha Venkatesh, Kon Mouzakis, Rajesh Vasa, Helen Christensen, Jill M Newby

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e60413

Recruitment of Young Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men for a Web-Based Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Intervention: Differences in Participant Characteristics and Study Engagement by Recruitment Source in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Recruitment of Young Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex With Men for a Web-Based Human Papillomavirus Vaccination Intervention: Differences in Participant Characteristics and Study Engagement by Recruitment Source in a Randomized Controlled Trial

Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men have previously been referred to as a “hard-to-reach” or “hidden” population for study recruitment [12,13], and traditional recruitment approaches for this community often included snowball sampling, use of “gatekeeper” organizations associated with the community, and venue-based recruitment at community events, health clinics, or other settings [11,14,15].

Daniel J Marshall, Amy L Gower, Mira L Katz, José A Bauermeister, Abigail B Shoben, Paul L Reiter

J Med Internet Res 2025;27:e64668