Factors Associated with Productive Recruiting in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Men who Have Sex with Men in Vancouver, Canada

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What does this study demonstrate? ¥ Underreported operational challenges of implementing respondent-driven sampling (RDS). ¥ Factors associated with productive recruiting in an urban RDS-generated sample of gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in order to help other RDS researchers. ¥ The importance of social network size in RDS adjustment to validate RDS methods. ¥ Other social and behavioural variables that can improve the implementation of the recruitment strategy.

Citation: Jamie I Forrest, Nathan J Lachowsky, Allan Lal, Zishan Cui, Paul Sereda, Henry F Raymond, Gina Ogilvie, Eric A Roth, David Moore, Robert S Hogg. (2016). Factors Associated with Productive Recruiting in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Men who have Sex with Men in Vancouver, Canada, Journal of Urban Health, 93:2, 379-387. DOI: 10.1007/s11524-016-0032-2.

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