Recruiting young adults to child maltreatment research through Facebook: A feasibility study
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2013
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Parkinson, S.
Bromfield, L.
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Child Abuse and Neglect, 2013; 37(9):716-720
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Obtaining reliable estimates of the extent of child maltreatment in the community is a problem for researchers. Young people are highly desirable participants, albeit difficult to contact, for maltreatment research (Savage & McCarron, 2009). Common methods for recruiting representative community samples of young people include classroom sampling (Chen, Dunne, & Han, 2004); household sampling (Cawson, Wattam, Brooker, & Kelly, 2000); and telephone interviews (Finkelhor, Turner, Ormrod, & Hamby, 2010). Changes in the ways young people communicate represent an opportunity to explore alternate methods of participant recruitment (Steffens, Tonelli, & Davidsson, 2011). This study investigates the feasibility of using online social media to recruit young adults as participants in child maltreatment research.
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Copyright 2013 Elsevier