Journal article
Internet-based recruitment to a depression prevention intervention: Lessons from the mood memos study
AJ Morgan, AF Jorm, AJ Mackinnon
Journal of Medical Internet Research | JMIR PUBLICATIONS, INC | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2262
Abstract
Background: Recruiting participants to randomized controlled trials of health interventions can be very difficult. Internet-based recruitment is becoming an increasingly important mode of recruitment, yet there are few detailed accounts of experiences recruiting participants to mental health interventions. Objective: To report on our experience with Internet-based recruitment to an online depression prevention intervention and pass on lessons we learned. Methods: Participants were recruited to the Mood Memos study, an online preventive depression intervention, purely through Internet-based sources. The study was targeted to adults with subthreshold depression symptoms from several English-sp..
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Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
Funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Postgraduate Scholarship (567056), a Sidney Myer Health Scholarship, and an NHMRC Australia Fellowship. Orygen Youth Health Research Centre receives funding from the Colonial Foundation. The funding sources had no role in the study design, collection, analysis or interpretation of data, in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. Thanks to the working group of Sarah Bourchier, Laura Hart, Claire Kelly, Betty Kitchener, and Siobhan Ryan. Thanks to David Jahshan for programming assistance with PHP and MySQL. Thanks to the websites and organizations that assisted with recruiting participants to the study.