Exploring barriers to care home research recruitment during the COVID-19 pandemic: The influence of social media recruitment posts and public sentiment

• Mariyana Schoultz ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariyana Schoultz, Claire Mcgrogan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mariyana.schoultz@northumbria.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3780-8110

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• Claire Mcgrogan ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Mariyana Schoultz, Claire Mcgrogan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Health and Life Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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• Clare Carolan ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, United Kingdom

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• Leah Macaden ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Nursing Studies, School of Health in Social Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Michelle Beattie

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

  Affiliation Centre for Rural Health Sciences, University of the Highlands and Islands, Inverness, United Kingdom

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