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- Title
Crowdsourced health research studies: an important emerging complement to clinical trials in the public health research ecosystem.
- Authors
Swan, Melanie
- Abstract
Crowdsourced health research studies are the nexus of three contemporary trends: 1) citizen science (non-professionally trained individuals conducting science-related activities); 2) crowdsourcing (use of web-based technologies to recruit project participants); and 3) medicine 2.0 / health 2.0 (active participation of individuals in their health care particularly using web 2.0 technologies). Crowdsourced health research studies have arisen as a natural extension of the activities of health social networks (online health interest communities), and can be researcher-organized or participant-organized. In the last few years, professional researchers have been crowdsourcing cohorts from health social networks for the conduct of traditional studies. Participants have also begun to organize their own research studies through health social networks and health collaboration communities created especially for the purpose of self-experimentation and the investigation of health-related concerns.
- Publication
Journal of medical Internet research, 2012, Vol 14, Issue 2, pe46
- ISSN
1438-8871
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2196/jmir.1988