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- Title
Effectiveness of Respondent Driven Sampling to Recruit Undocumented Central American Immigrant Women in Houston, Texas for an HIV Behavioral Survey.
- Authors
Montealegre, Jane; Risser, Jan; Selwyn, Beatrice; Mccurdy, Sheryl; Sabin, Keith
- Abstract
Respondent driven sampling (RDS) is widely used for HIV behavioral research among sex workers, drug users, and other hidden populations, but has had limited application in immigrant populations in the U.S. In 2010, we used RDS to recruit undocumented Central American immigrant women in Houston, Texas for an HIV behavioral survey. Beginning with three initial participants we recruited 226 women within 16 weeks. Social networks were dense and participants adopted the recruitment system with reasonable ease. Homophily scores indicated moderate within-group preference by country of origin. However, cross-group recruitment was sufficient to achieve a diverse sample that attained equilibrium for all demographic and sexual behavior characteristics. Overall, RDS was easy to implement, attained a large sample in a relatively short period of time, and reached an otherwise hidden population. Our results suggest that RDS is an effective method for recruiting undocumented Latina immigrants for HIV behavioral surveys.
- Subjects
CENTRAL America; TEXAS; HIV prevention; HIV infection risk factors; CONFIDENCE intervals; IMMIGRANTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICAL sampling; HUMAN research subjects; PATIENT selection; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics
- Publication
AIDS & Behavior, 2013, Vol 17, Issue 2, p719
- ISSN
1090-7165
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10461-012-0306-y