Background: Web-based participant recruitment registries can be useful tools for accelerating enrollment into studies, but existing Alzheimer's disease (AD)-focused recruitment registries have had limited success enrolling individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups. Designing these registries to meet the needs of individuals from these communities, including designing mobile-first, may facilitate improvement in the enrollment of underrepresented groups.
Objectives: Evaluate the usability of a prototype mobile-first participant recruitment registry for AD prevention studies; assess users' perceptions of and willingness to sign up for the registry.
Amid the COVID-19 global pandemic, a highly troublesome influx of viral misinformation threatens to exacerbate the crisis through its deleterious effects on public health outcomes and health behavior decisions.This "misinfodemic" has ignited a surge of ongoing research aimed at characterizing its content, identifying its sources, and documenting its effects. Noticeably absent as of yet is a cogent strategy to disrupt misinformation.
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