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College Participant Recruitment Through Facebook Ads: Is Anybody Listening?

Raviotta, Jonathan (2012) College Participant Recruitment Through Facebook Ads: Is Anybody Listening? Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

To combat cervical cancer, the United States public health policy has advocated Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination for all adolescent females. This female-only HPV vaccination campaign has failed to reach sufficiently protective uptake levels. New research describing strong associations between HPV and cancers afflicting both sexes, revised cost-effectiveness models, and the FDA licensure of a vaccine for men, has led to the inclusion of males into the U.S. HPV vaccination campaign. Including men in the ongoing campaign has raised new research questions and logistical challenges. Among those, is the challenge of how to effectively recruit men into HPV vaccine trials. Communication about HPV infection has been strongly linked with female cancers and suffers from sexual stigmatization. This study compared conventional recruitment of 18-25 year old men into a clinical HPV vaccination trial with recruitment through Facebook Ads™. Facebook Ads™ produced 20% of the study sample. Of the 44 men who first heard about the study through social sites, only 13 of these men also heard about the study through a conventional recruitment strategy, suggesting that conventional recruitment methods can be supplemented by social media recruitment. A larger than expected proportion of Facebook recruits were homosexual or bisexual (p=.02) and were also more active in social media (p=.02) than expected. The findings of this investigation suggest that Facebook and other social platforms could be a useful public health communication and recruitment tool for interventions or studies targeting 18-25 year old men, especially those who are homosexual or bisexual.

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Item Type: University of Pittsburgh ETD
Status: Unpublished
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
Raviotta, Jonathanjmr154@pitt.eduJMR154
ETD Committee:
TitleMemberEmail AddressPitt UsernameORCID
Committee ChairSharma, Ravi K.rks1946@pitt.eduRKS1946
Committee MemberTerry, Martha Annmaterry@pitt.eduMATERRY
Committee MemberNowalk, Mary Patriciatnowalk@pitt.eduTNOWALK
Date: 29 June 2012
Date Type: Completion
Defense Date: 27 March 2012
Approval Date: 29 June 2012
Submission Date: 1 April 2012
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Number of Pages: 93
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: School of Public Health > Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Degree: MPH - Master of Public Health
Thesis Type: Master's Thesis
Refereed: Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords: Facebook participant recruitment college men 18-25 year old men HPV
Date Deposited: 29 Jun 2012 17:49
Last Modified: 15 Nov 2016 13:58
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12201

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