A Web-Based Survey of the Relationship Between Buddhist Religious Practices, Health, and Psychological Characteristics: Research Methods and Preliminary Results

Wiist, William H.; Sullivan, Bruce M.; Wayment, Heidi A.; Warren, Meghan

doi:10.1007/s10943-008-9228-4

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“…In general, studies employing both offline and online methods to recruit participants for Web-based data collection have found offline methods to be less efficient [6,10,22,23]. This difference may stem from the extra participant effort required by offline methods.…”

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“…Some studies have reported the costs of a single online recruitment method [14,16-19], and others have reported on costs of using several online methods [20,21], or both offline and online methods [6,10,12,22,23]. Nevertheless, little is known about how recruitment methods compare in terms of efficiency (number of recruited participants) and costs per participant [20].…”

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Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

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BackgroundThe Internet is widely used to conduct research studies on health issues. Many different methods are used to recruit participants for such studies, but little is known about how various recruitment methods compare in terms of efficiency and costs.ObjectiveThe aim of our study was to compare online and offline recruitment methods for Internet-based studies in terms of efficiency (number of recruited participants) and costs per participant.MethodsWe employed several online and offline recruitment methods to enroll 18- to 45-year-old women in an Internet-based Danish prospective cohort study on fertility. Offline methods included press releases, posters, and flyers. Online methods comprised advertisements placed on five different websites, including Facebook and Netdoktor.dk. We defined seven categories of mutually exclusive recruitment methods and used electronic tracking via unique Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and self-reported data to identify the recruitment method for each participant. For each method, we calculated the average cost per participant and efficiency, that is, the total number of recruited participants.ResultsWe recruited 8252 study participants. Of these, 534 were excluded as they could not be assigned to a specific recruitment method. The final study population included 7724 participants, of whom 803 (10.4%) were recruited by offline methods, 3985 (51.6%) by online methods, 2382 (30.8%) by online methods not initiated by us, and 554 (7.2%) by other methods. Overall, the average cost per participant was €6.22 for online methods initiated by us versus €9.06 for offline methods. Costs per participant ranged from €2.74 to €105.53 for online methods and from €0 to €67.50 for offline methods. Lowest average costs per participant were for those recruited from Netdoktor.dk (€2.99) and from Facebook (€3.44).ConclusionsIn our Internet-based cohort study, online recruitment methods were superior to offline methods in terms of efficiency (total number of participants enrolled). The average cost per recruited participant was also lower for online than for offline methods, although costs varied greatly among both online and offline recruitment methods. We observed a decrease in the efficiency of some online recruitment methods over time, suggesting that it may be optimal to adopt multiple online methods.

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Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

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“…[60] Duncan & Bardacke [20] utilized both quantitative and qualitative methodology to assess the results of their MBCP program. They found that qualitative reports from participants expand upon the quantitative findings, with the majority of participants reporting perceived benefits of using mindfulness practices during the perinatal period and early parenting.…”

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Perceptions and experiences of pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong on prenatal meditation: A qualitative study

Chan¹

2015

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Background and Objective: Quantitative research has evidences that prenatal meditation has positive effects on maternal health but lack of qualitative data in this area. This study explored the perceptions and experiences of pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong on prenatal meditation. Methods: A qualitative study. Data were collected using digitally recorded, face-to-face, semi-structured interviews. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Setting: Prenatal meditation program (Eastern Based Meditative Intervention, EBMI) for pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong who were attending the hospital clinic for routine perinatal care. Participants: 43 participants were chosen from groups of pregnant Chinese women who attended the prenatal meditation program. Results: Six themes were developed during 1st interview when the participants first attended the course, including selfintroduction, changes during pregnancy and how to solve problems, self-reported difference in mental and social condition before and after pregnancy, acceptance of complications arise during pregnancy, beliefs about bio-psycho-socio-spiritual interaction in relation to pregnancy health and child health and reasons why they participate in the intervention. Three themes emerged from the data collected during 2nd interview at 36 weeks, including participants' opinion in practicing EBMI, effects of EBMI on bio-psycho-socio-spiritual aspects and suggestions on improvement of EBMI. Conclusions: This research adds to the overall body of knowledge that prenatal meditation is important to facilitate pregnant women in coping with physical distress, better equipped in crisis management, strengthen social relationship and result in spiritual empowerment. Incorporation of meditation in prenatal care will be a necessity in future.

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“…Despite suggestions that have been made regarding integrating these low-cost treatments into traditional therapies (Marchand, 2012) due to such decrease in depressive symptoms (Crane & Williams, 2010;Michalak, Burg, & Heidenreich, 2012) and improvement in overall health conditions (Wiist, Sullivan, St. George, & Wayment, 2012;Wiist, Sullivan, Wayment, & Warren, 2010), these studies have focused on using meditation skills (Salzberg, 2009) that may not necessarily be effective for every client (Kaori & Park, 2009). Furthermore, they tend to disregard other direct Buddhist factors that influence therapeutic effectiveness, such as thought transformation through change of worldviews, lifeviews, and perception of self, which are related to deeper insight into long-term effectiveness gained from Buddhist wisdom.…”

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Recovery from Depression Through Buddhist Wisdom: An Idiographic Case Study

Cheng

2014

Social Work in Mental Health

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Results from the recent growing trend in using mindfulness training to deal with depression report an evident decrease in depressive symptoms. The present idiographic case study explores the lived experience of how a woman with depression recovered through Buddhist teachings and practices. This single case adopted multiple data sources, including interviews, autobiographies, a genogram, and an autobiographical timeline. Member-checking and peer analysis are employed to enhance the trustworthiness. The first-hand data, analyzed through interpretative phenomenological analysis, reveal the perceived factors causing the informant's depression, as well as benefits gained from Buddhist practices, and the insight learned from experiencing depression; by which insight self-benefiting altruism can accomplish personal growth by converting suffering into assets that help others. This exploratory research offers an alternative view through which to understand depression and non-medication treatments through Buddhist ideas, and also proposes future research directions.

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A Web-Based Survey of the Relationship Between Buddhist Religious Practices, Health, and Psychological Characteristics: Research Methods and Preliminary Results

Cited by 20 publications

References 30 publications

Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

Costs and Efficiency of Online and Offline Recruitment Methods: A Web-Based Cohort Study

Perceptions and experiences of pregnant Chinese women in Hong Kong on prenatal meditation: A qualitative study

Recovery from Depression Through Buddhist Wisdom: An Idiographic Case Study

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