I've seen at symposia that some people have success recruiting for research studies on subreddits like r/depression or r/anxiety. Does anyone have experience with this? I have an upcoming study where I think this recruitment method would be useful. Has anyone run into IRB issues with this recruitment method? If you've had success with this recruitment method, how did you go about making your posts?
I've used the "subreddit" r/samplesize for recruitment, its dedicated directly for this purpose (instructions on how to post, etc., are contained in the sidebar). I got about 200 participants in of a month using this approach, and my IRB did not ask any questions.
I think posting recruitment ads on other subreddits (related to disease states, etcc) is at the discretion of the moderators. I asked about one and was told no.
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