How Twitter increases research reach
Channel: Research Outreach
Date: 2019-02-25

A Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Institute of Gender and Health, funded a research team (#CIHRTeamSV) to investigate the link between gender and sexual violence victimization, recognizing the lack of knowledge on boys and young adults. A collection of publications on systematic reviews, epidemiology of victimization and healthcare services access, and research in special populations (child welfare-involved youth; youth receiving services from Child Youth Advocacy Clinics) were available to disseminate.  A social media experiment was designed to evaluate the utility of Twitter to bolster engagement with the researchers' profiles and articles directly, as well as to look at uptake (citations).  Results showed this approach as promising, which is encouraging especially in such a sensitive area for discourse. 
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Additional Information
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29778296
https://www.childhelplineinternational.org/
https://business.twitter.com/en/basics/what-to-tweet.html
https://bit.ly/2Nx37MB
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Social Media
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https://twitter.com/DrWekerle
https://twitter.com/Resilience_Team
https://twitter.com/ResilienceInYou
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Research Outreach
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https://researchoutreach.org/
https://twitter.com/@ResOutreach
https://www.facebook.com/researchoutreach/
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#ChildProtection
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