Using Reddit as a recruitment strategy for addiction science research.

Autor: Goodwin SR; Department of Psychology, Rowan University, United States of America., Dwyer MJ; Department of Psychology, Rowan University, United States of America., Caliva SL; Department of Psychology, Rowan University, United States of America., Burrows CA; Department of Psychology, Rowan University, United States of America., Raiff BR; Department of Psychology, Rowan University, United States of America. Electronic address: raiff@rowan.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of substance use and addiction treatment [J Subst Use Addict Treat] 2023 May; Vol. 148, pp. 209011. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Mar 15.
DOI: 10.1016/j.josat.2023.209011
Abstrakt: Reddit is a forum-based social media and message board platform that has been used in the social sciences as a recruitment source of human subject data. In addiction science, Reddit remains a viable but underutilized tool, compared to other websites (e.g., Amazon's Mechanical Turk, Prolific). The purpose of this commentary is to provide a rationale and recommendations for the successful use of Reddit for addiction science researchers interested in adding it as a recruitment tool. We provide an example of how Reddit can be used to target specific populations of interest, such as individuals struggling with depression or alcohol use disorder. Last, we discuss the limitations of Reddit as a research tool and some considerations for future research to help promote effective use of the platform.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
(Copyright © 2023. Published by Elsevier Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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