ArticleAIDS and behavior2014
Evaluating outcome-correlated recruitment and geographic recruitment bias in a respondent-driven sample of people who inject drugs in Tijuana, Mexico.
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- Variation in HIV Transmission Behaviors Among People Who Use Drugs in Rural US Communities.JAMA network open · 2023Article
- 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
- Empirical evidence of recruitment bias in a network study of people who inject drugs.The American journal of drug and alcohol abuse · 2019Article
- Using Partially-Observed Facebook Networks to Develop a Peer-Based HIV Prevention Intervention: Case Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 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
- The relationship between Black and gay community involvement and HIV-related risk behaviors among Black men who have sex with men.Journal of gay & lesbian social services · 2018Article
- Identification of Homophily and Preferential Recruitment in Respondent-Driven Sampling.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Examining the Social Context of Injection Drug Use: Social Proximity to Persons Who Inject Drugs Versus Geographic Proximity to Persons Who Inject Drugs.American journal of epidemiology · 2017Article
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- Social venue range and referral chain impact: Implications for the sampling of hidden communities.PloS one · 2017Article
- Marijuana Use Among Young Black Men Who Have Sex With Men and the HIV Care Continuum: Findings From the uConnect Cohort.Substance use & misuse · 2016Article
- Using respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit illegal poly-substance users in Cape Town, South Africa: implications and future directions.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2016Article
- Polydrug Use and HIV Risk Among People Who Inject Heroin in Tijuana, Mexico: A Latent Class Analysis.Substance use & misuse · 2015Article
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Respondent-driven sampling's (RDS) widespread use and reliance on untested assumptions suggests a need for new exploratory/diagnostic tests. We assessed geographic recruitment bias and outcome-correlated recruitment among 1,048 RDS-recruited people who inject drugs (Tijuana, Mexico). Surveys gathered demographics, drug/sex behaviors, activity locations, and recruiter-recruit pairs. Simulations assessed geographic and network clustering of active syphilis (RPR titers ≥1:8). Gender-specific predicted probabilities were estimated using logistic regression with GEE and robust standard errors. Active syphilis prevalence was 7 % (crude: men = 5.7 % and women = 16.6 %; RDS-adjusted: men = 6.7 % and women = 7.6 %). Syphilis clustered in the Zona Norte, a neighborhood known for drug and sex markets. Network simulations revealed geographic recruitment bias and non-random recruitment by syphilis status. Gender-specific prevalence estimates accounting for clustering were highest among those living/working/injecting/buying drugs in the Zona Norte and directly/indirectly connected to syphilis cases (men: 15.9 %, women: 25.6 %) and lowest among those with neither exposure (men: 3.0 %, women: 6.1 %). Future RDS analyses should assess/account for network and spatial dependencies.
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