Using Social Media to Recruit a Diverse Sample of Participants for a Mobile Health (mHealth) Intervention to Increase Physical Activity: Exploratory Study

Laura Pathak   ¹ , BA, MSW ;   Rosa Hernandez-Ramos   ² , BA, MA ;   Karina Rosales   ¹ , BA ;   Jose Miramontes-Gomez   ³ , BA ;   Faviola Garcia   ³ , BA ;   Vivian Yip   ⁴ , BA ;   Suchitra Sudarshan   ⁵ , BA ;   Anupama Gunshekar Cemballi   ³ , BA, MA ;   Courtney Lyles   ⁶ , PhD ;   Adrian Aguilera   ^{1, 7} , PhD

¹ School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

² Department of Psychological Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States

³ Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States

⁴ Whole Person Integrated Care, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States

⁵ Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States

⁶ Center for Healthcare Research and Policy, University of California Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA, United States

⁷ Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States