Recruiting Medical Students for a First Responder Project in the Social Age: Direct Contact Still Outperforms Social Media

Table 1

Characteristics and recruitment route of the participants in the first responder training who responded to the online questionnaire.

Characteristics	Participants (n)	59
	Female, n (%)	42 (71.2)
	Age, years (mean ± standard deviation)	24 ± 1
Recruitment route	Recruitment via social media, n (%)	9 (15.3)
	Recruitment via direct contact, n (%)	46 (78.0)
	Recruitment via social media and direct contact, n (%)	1 (1.7)
	Recruitment via other sources, n (%)	3 (5.1)