The Touro 12-Step: A Systematic Guide to Optimizing Survey Research with Online Discussion Boards

The Internet, in particular discussion boards, can provide a unique opportunity for recruiting participants in online research surveys. Despite its outreach potential, there are significant barriers which can limit its success. Trust, participation, and visibility issues can all hinder the recruitme...

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Autores principales: Ip, Eric J, Barnett, Mitchell J, Tenerowicz, Michael J, Perry, Paul J
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Gunther Eysenbach 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20507843
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1314
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author Ip, Eric J
Barnett, Mitchell J
Tenerowicz, Michael J
Perry, Paul J
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description The Internet, in particular discussion boards, can provide a unique opportunity for recruiting participants in online research surveys. Despite its outreach potential, there are significant barriers which can limit its success. Trust, participation, and visibility issues can all hinder the recruitment process; the Touro 12-Step was developed to address these potential hurdles. By following this step-by-step approach, researchers will be able to minimize these pitfalls and maximize their recruitment potential via online discussion boards.
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spelling pubmed-29562272010-10-18 The Touro 12-Step: A Systematic Guide to Optimizing Survey Research with Online Discussion Boards Ip, Eric J Barnett, Mitchell J Tenerowicz, Michael J Perry, Paul J J Med Internet Res Letter The Internet, in particular discussion boards, can provide a unique opportunity for recruiting participants in online research surveys. Despite its outreach potential, there are significant barriers which can limit its success. Trust, participation, and visibility issues can all hinder the recruitment process; the Touro 12-Step was developed to address these potential hurdles. By following this step-by-step approach, researchers will be able to minimize these pitfalls and maximize their recruitment potential via online discussion boards. Gunther Eysenbach 2010-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2956227/ /pubmed/20507843 http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1314 Text en ©Eric J Ip, Mitchell J Barnett, Michael J Tenerowicz, Paul J Perry. Originally published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (http://www.jmir.org), 27.05.2010   http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work, first published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research, is properly cited. The complete bibliographic information, a link to the original publication on http://www.jmir.org/, as well as this copyright and license information must be included.
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Ip, Eric J
Barnett, Mitchell J
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Perry, Paul J
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title_short The Touro 12-Step: A Systematic Guide to Optimizing Survey Research with Online Discussion Boards
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2956227/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20507843
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1314
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