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Comparing Health Survey Data Cost and Quality Between Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel: Observational Study

Comparing Health Survey Data Cost and Quality Between Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and Ipsos’ KnowledgePanel: Observational Study

Access to MTurk workers is available to anyone with an Amazon Web Services account for the cost of the incentives paid to workers and a fee to Amazon. Requesters (researchers) must develop and format the survey in some generally accessible program (we used Select Survey [Class Apps, Inc]) and post it (much like a job advertisement) on the MTurk site available to workers looking for HITs, and they are responsible for releasing and monitoring the survey, as well as for data download, cleaning, and weighting.

Patricia M Herman, Mary E Slaughter, Nabeel Qureshi, Tarek Azzam, David Cella, Ian D Coulter, Graham DiGuiseppi, Maria Orlando Edelen, Arie Kapteyn, Anthony Rodriguez, Max Rubinstein, Ron D Hays

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e63032

Dropout in a Longitudinal Survey of Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers With Low Back Pain: Observational Study

Dropout in a Longitudinal Survey of Amazon Mechanical Turk Workers With Low Back Pain: Observational Study

Conducting surveys on platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) have proliferated as a cost-effective and fast way of collecting data about health [1-3]. The number of studies using MTurk for social science research has been steadily increasing due in part to the ease of use, existing tools to support research activities, and quick turnaround for data collection [4].

Nabeel Qureshi, Ron D Hays, Patricia M Herman

Interact J Med Res 2024;13:e58771

Selling Misleading “Cancer Cure” Books on Amazon: Systematic Search on Amazon.com and Thematic Analysis

Selling Misleading “Cancer Cure” Books on Amazon: Systematic Search on Amazon.com and Thematic Analysis

Amazon is the world’s largest e-commerce website. Each day, tens of thousands of products are sold on the platform to Amazon’s 300+ million users [18]. Amazon assists its users to sell, advertise, or purchase products in an efficient and convenient process with few barriers [19]. As of October 2023, a search for “cancer” on Amazon (Amazon.com) returns over 100,000 search results [20].

Marco Zenone, May van Schalkwyk, Greg Hartwell, Timothy Caulfield, Nason Maani

J Med Internet Res 2024;26:e56354

Family-Based WhatsApp Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Amazonian School Children: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Family-Based WhatsApp Intervention to Promote Healthy Eating Behaviors Among Amazonian School Children: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

In this context, the Brazilian Amazon was one of the most affected regions in the country due to its remote location and lack of specialized health assistance [5,7]. Recent studies revealed that approximately 70% of the northern population experience food insecurity [8]. Additionally, 20% experience severe food insecurity, wherein individuals feel hungry but do not have funds to buy food, have only 1 meal a day, or endure entire days without any meals [8].

Ana Carolina de Andrade Hovadick, Marly Augusto Cardoso

JMIR Res Protoc 2024;13:e54446

Identifying Targets for Innovation in Amazon Reviews of Bedwetting Alarms: Thematic Analysis

Identifying Targets for Innovation in Amazon Reviews of Bedwetting Alarms: Thematic Analysis

Using the search term “bedwetting alarms for kids,” Amazon reviews from 2016 to 2022 were extracted from the Amazon marketplace [11] for all bedwetting products that had over 300 ratings in February and March 2022. Data was collected manually by 4 evaluators. Reviews were extracted if they met three criteria: (1) the review was posted within the target date range; (2) the review length was >5 words; and (3) Amazon verified that the reviewer had purchased the product.

Astha Sahoo, Savannah Leah Starr, Vadim Osadchiy, Sophia Desai, Neha Iyer, Marie Luff, Grace E Sollender, Renea Sturm

Interact J Med Res 2023;12:e43194

Voice-Based Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Exposure in Cardiovascular Clinics (VOICE-COVID-19-II): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Voice-Based Screening for SARS-CoV-2 Exposure in Cardiovascular Clinics (VOICE-COVID-19-II): Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial

Telemedicine and AI technologies that use interactive voice response systems, such as Amazon Alexa, have been shown to be able to facilitate patient screening within a hospital environment [9]. In fact, previous research has demonstrated good agreement and high interrater reliability (IRR) between Amazon Alexa and health care providers [10].

Emily Oulousian, Seok Hoon Chung, Elie Ganni, Amir Razaghizad, Guang Zhang, Robert Avram, Abhinav Sharma

JMIR Res Protoc 2023;12:e41209

User Experience Regarding Digital Primary Health Care in Santarém, Amazon: Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction and Doctor’s Feedback

User Experience Regarding Digital Primary Health Care in Santarém, Amazon: Evaluation of Patient Satisfaction and Doctor’s Feedback

On the other hand, some of them, with a very low Human Development Index, can only be accessed by boat in the middle of the Amazon region like the district of Paysandú. For these hard-to-reach small towns, even access to primary care provided by a primary care physician is often scarce. In Society 5.0, where humans are supposed to be the center and technology the servant, geographical barriers should be broken using telemedicine.

Kaio Jia Bin, Patrícia Gabriela Santana Alves, Raquel Costa, Paula Cruz Eiras, Luciano Nader de Araujo, Antonio José Rodrigues Pereira, Carlos Carvalho, Ana Maria Malik

JMIR Form Res 2023;7:e39034

Nonprescription Products of Internet Retailers for the Prevention and Management of Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia: Analysis of Consumer Reviews on Amazon

Nonprescription Products of Internet Retailers for the Prevention and Management of Herpes Zoster and Postherpetic Neuralgia: Analysis of Consumer Reviews on Amazon

However, with the advent of internet information and shopping through internet retailers such as Amazon, patients can now easily access nonprescription remedies for the rashes and neuropathic pain caused by shingles or PHN. Amazon has recently been utilized as a data source in studies to analyze consumer perception and preference for health-related products [11-13].

Pengyi Zhu, Benjamin K P Woo

JMIR Dermatol 2021;4(1):e24971

Consumer Preference of Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Stretch Marks: Systematic Product Search

Consumer Preference of Products for the Prevention and Treatment of Stretch Marks: Systematic Product Search

P Out of over 10,000 products on the United States internet retailer Amazon, 184 products met the required criteria. This group of products had a median consumer rating of 4.5 and a median of 409 reviews per product (range 103-10,573; total 183,366).

Pengyi Zhu, Andrew Fung, Benjamin K P Woo

JMIR Dermatol 2020;3(1):e18295