Association of Social Media Recruitment and Depression Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Candidates: Prospective Cohort Study

Jackson M Francis   ¹ , MPH ;   Sitapriya S Neti   ^{2, 3} , MPH ;   Dhatri Polavarapu   ^{2, 3} , MPH ;   Folefac Atem   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Luyu Xie   ¹ , PharmD, PhD ;   Olivia Kapera   ⁴ , MPH ;   Matthew S Mathew   ¹ , MS ;   Elisa Marroquin   ⁵ , MS, PhD ;   Carrie McAdams   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Jeffrey Schellinger   ⁷ , MCH, RD, CSOWM, LD ;   Sophia Ngenge   ¹ , MPH ;   Sachin Kukreja   ¹ , MD ;   Benjamin E Schneider   ⁸ , MD ;   Jaime P Almandoz   ⁷ , MBA, MD ;   Sarah E Messiah   ^{1, 9} , MPH, PhD

¹ Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

² School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), Dallas, TX, United States

³ Department of Biostatistics & Data Science, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Dallas, TX, United States

⁴ School of Public Health, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

⁵ Department of Nutritional Sciences, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, United States

⁶ Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁷ Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁸ Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States

⁹ Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, United States