Including Online-Recruited Seeds: A Respondent-Driven Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men
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Including Online-Recruited Seeds: A Respondent-Driven Sample of Men Who Have Sex With Men.
BACKGROUND Technology has changed the way men who have sex with men (MSM) seek sex and socialize, which may impact the implementation of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) among this population. Initial participants (also known as seeds) are a critical consideration in RDS because they begin the recruitment chains. However, little information is available on how the online-recruited seeds may eff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Internet Research
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1438-8871
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.5258