ArticleJournal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine2010
What makes a respondent-driven sampling "seed" productive? Example of finding at-risk Massachusetts men who have sex with men.
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- Incidence of and Experiences with Abortion Attempts in Soweto, South Africa: Respondent-Driven Sampling Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Article
- Challenges of virtual RDS for recruitment of sexual minority women for a behavioral health study.Journal of survey statistics and methodology · 2022Article
- The Co-Evolution of Network Structure and PrEP Adoption among a Large Cohort of PrEP Peer Leaders: Implications for Intervention Evaluation and Community Capacity-Building.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Individual and Social Network Structure Characteristics Associated with Peer Change Agent Engagement and Impact in a PrEP Intervention.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Implementing Respondent-Driven Sampling to Recruit Women Who Exchange Sex in New York City: Factors Associated with Recruitment and Lessons Learned.AIDS and behavior · 2020Article
- Health Care Discrimination, Sex Behavior Disclosure, and Awareness of Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Among Black Men Who Have Sex With Men.Stigma and health · 2018Article
- Statistical adjustment of network degree in respondent-driven sampling estimators: venue attendance as a proxy for network size among young MSM.Social networks · 2018Article
- Multiple strategies to identify HIV-positive black men who have sex with men and transgender women in New York City: a cross-sectional analysis of recruitment results.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2018Article
- Social venue range and referral chain impact: Implications for the sampling of hidden communities.PloS one · 2017Article
- Factors Associated with Productive Recruiting in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Men who Have Sex with Men in Vancouver, Canada.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2016Article
- Including Online-Recruited Seeds: A Respondent-Driven Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men.Journal of medical Internet research · 2016Article
- Using Respondent Driven Sampling to Identify Malaria Risks and Occupational Networks among Migrant Workers in Ranong, Thailand.PloS one · 2016Article
- A Comparison of Referred Sexual Partners to Their Community Recruited Counterparts in The BROTHERS Project (HPTN 061).AIDS and behavior · 2015Article
- Respondent-driven sampling among gay and bisexual men: experiences from a New Zealand pilot study.BMC research notes · 2015Article
- Evaluation of respondent-driven sampling in a study of urban young men who have sex with men.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2015Article
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- Comparison of sampling methods for hard-to-reach francophone populations: yield and adequacy of advertisement and respondent-driven sampling.Open medicine : a peer-reviewed, independent, open-access journal · 2014Article
- Respondent-driven sampling to recruit young adult non-medical users of pharmaceutical opioids: problems and solutions.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2012Article
- Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California.The international journal of transgenderismArticle
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Abstract
Several recent studies have sought to elaborate upon the applicability and validity of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to find hard-to-reach samples in general and men who have sex with men (MSM) in particular. Few published studies have elucidated the characteristics associated with initial RDS participants ("seeds") who successfully recruited others into a study. A total of 74 original seeds were analyzed from four Massachusetts studies conducted between 2006 and 2008 that used RDS to reach high-risk MSM. Seeds were considered "generative" if they recruited two or more subsequent participants and "non-generative" if they recruited zero or one participant. Overall, 34% of seeds were generative. In separate multivariable logistic regression models controlling for age, race, health insurance, HIV status, and the study for which the seed was enrolled, unprotected anal sex in the past 12 months [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 6.68; 95% confidence interval (95% CI) = 1.27-35.12; p = 0.03], cocaine use during sex at least monthly during the past 12 months (AOR = 8.81; 95% CI = 1.68-46.27; p = 0.01), and meeting sex partners at social gatherings (AOR = 7.42; 95% CI = 1.58-34.76; p = 0.01) and public cruising areas (AOR = 4.92; 95% CI = 1.27-19.01; p = 0.02) were each significantly associated with increased odds of being a generative seed. These findings have methodological and practical implications for the recruitment of MSM via RDS. Finding ways to identify RDS seeds that are consistently generative may facilitate collecting a sample that is closer to reflecting the MSM who live in all of the communities in a given location or study sample.
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