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Successful Online Survey Recruitment Strategies . and. Reactions from Sexual Minority Youth . Authors and Support. Author and Presenter: Marilyn Hoppe , Ph.D., University of Washington
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Successful Online Survey Recruitment Strategies and Reactions from Sexual Minority Youth
Authors and Support • Author and Presenter: Marilyn Hoppe, Ph.D., University of Washington • Co-Authors: Blair Beadnell, Ph.D., Diane Morrison, Ph.D., Elizabeth Wells, Ph.D., Avry Todd, MSW, University of Washington; David Dean Jr., Ph.D., Bucknell University • Funding source: NIMH #075030
Mental Set • Why?—QVoices Project Background • How?—How did we put together the survey? How did we recruit people? • Who?—Description of our sample. • What?—What did they say? What lessons did we learn?
What we learned from Focus Groups • Confidentiality • Level of Comfort • Length • Understanding the questions • Fear of being judged • What would data be used for?
What we learned from Focus Groups • Cash • Prepaid debit card • Movie passes • Gift cards • Music downloads
What we learned from Focus Groups • Technology-based • Venue-based • General
Our conclusion of what to do. . . . . .conduct an online, anonymous survey with incentives.
How do you put together an online anonymous survey with incentives? (With a little help from your friends!) Collaborate! Collaborate! Collaborate!
How do you put together an online anonymous survey with incentives? (With a little help from your friends!) • School of Social Work Computing Staff—website construction and hosting the website • DatStat, Inc.--programming and hosting the survey • Hallmark Insights—hosting and providing incentives • Facebook—recruitment • Qvoices Staff—survey items, monitor incoming data
DatStat, Inc.™ Programming and Hosting our Survey
Recruitment Ad on Facebook Survey for Gay Teens Tell us your experiences in an anonymous online survey. QVoices is a study at the University of Washington School of Social Work.
Cost for Facebook Ads $126.72
What did they say? What did we learn?
What we learned • Important to talk with members of target audience. • Difficult to manage an anonymous survey and give incentives. • Important to collaborate with partners who have expertise and some flexibility. • Facebook (and potentially other social networking sites) can be used effectively to recruit LGBTQ youth. • Recruiting via social networking sites can be very cost efficient.