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Published on in Vol 27 (2025)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/78183, first published .
Ethical Considerations for the Use of Social Media in the Human Subjects Research Setting

Ethical Considerations for the Use of Social Media in the Human Subjects Research Setting

Ethical Considerations for the Use of Social Media in the Human Subjects Research Setting

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Tara Coffin   1 , BA, MEd, CIP, PhD

1 Institutional Review Board, WCG Clinical, Cary, NC, United States

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