Hi Everyone,
I hope you are all staying safe and healthy. I am working on two online studies that assess psychosocial changes associated with the COVID-19 outbreak, and I would be grateful to get any tips or suggestions on recruitment. Here are the two studies:
1st study: College/university students in the U.S.I am running an online study on U.S. college/university students' experience with the COVID-19 outbreak and transition to remote instruction (mostly pertaining to psychosocial and academic adjustment). The study involves a baseline survey and then up to weekly follow-up surveys through early May.
The study does use subject pool credit at my institution and snowball sampling, but does not currently have compensation for non-subject pool participants -- so I'm mainly targeting students who want to volunteer/contribute their time and data to science. (Study cover letter URL:
http://fullerton.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8FTHkCALREWz2PX) Recruitment is fair but needs to be accelerated in order to capture more data while students are still adjusting to remote instruction.
2nd study: Family adjustment (U.S.)I am still in the process of planning this online survey study, but the study is intended to capture family/parental adjustment to the stay-at-home orders. I would like to do a baseline survey and then up to two follow-ups (with the last follow-up at one year).
I have about $1k that I could use for incentives, but no other funding that could be applied to these studies for now. I had considered maybe using Amazon's mechanical turk for the 2nd study, but one of my colleagues struggled to get usable data through mTurk.
Any suggestions on recruitment would be greatly appreciated, including how to best disseminate my 1st study, where to recruit potential participants (U.S. parents) for the 2nd study, and/or how to best use potential incentives.
Thanks so much,
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Yuko Okado
California State University, Fullerton
657-278-7388
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