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Table 1 Total enquiries, eligible, and randomized participants per recruitment strategy

From: Recruitment and retention of mothers of preschoolers and school-aged children in a social media-delivered healthy eating intervention: lessons learned from a randomized controlled trial

Modality

Recruitment strategy

N enquiries

(%)

N eligible

(%)1

N randomized

(%)1

Social media

Facebook

27

(14)

4

(15)

3

(11)

Traditional electronic media

University email list

66

(34)

43

(65)

41

(62)

Research institute email list

29

(15)

14

(48)

14

(48)

Hospital employee Intranet

24

(12)

11

(46)

11

(46)

Subtotal

119

(61)

68

(57)

66

(55)

Print media

Flyers

1

(1)

0

(0)

0

(0)

Local newspaper advertisement

6

(3)

6

(100)

6

(100)

Subtotal

7

(4)

6

(86)

6

(86)

Other

Word of mouth

4

(2)

1

(25)

1

(25)

Summer Camp

1

(1)

1

(100)

1

(100)

Recall list of other family-based nutrition intervention study

17

(9)

4

(24)

4

(24)

Subtotal

22

(11)

5

(23)

6

(27)

Not described

Not described

21

(11)

3

(14)

3

(14)

Total

 

196

 

87

 

84

 
  1. 1Percentages are expressed as the proportions of eligible or randomized mothers from the number of enquiries for each recruitment method.
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