Effectiveness of Respondent–Driven Sampling for Recruiting Drug Users in New York City: Findings from a Pilot Study

Abdul-Quader, Abu; Heckathorn, Douglas D.; McKnight, Courtney; Bramson, Heidi; Nemeth, Chris; Sabin, Keith; Gallagher, Kathleen; Jarlais, Don C. Des

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“…Participation was anonymous. No locator information was collected but a number of bio-measures including forearm length and wrist circumference were collected to prevent repeat participation (duplicates) 34 35…”

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Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia

Abdala

Hansen

Toussova³

et al. 2013

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care

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Objectives To assess risk for unintended pregnancy, this study describes the correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse (UPSI) among women who inject illicit drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia. Methods Data from a cross-sectional survey and biological test results collected between 2005 and 2008 from 202 Russian women (143 drug injectors and 59 non-drug injectors) were analysed. Multivariate regression was used to investigate the correlates of UPSI occurring at the women’s last sexual act. Independent variables included socio-demographics, age at sexual debut, first sexual encounter perceived as involuntary, number of pregnancies and number of children for which the participant is the primary caretaker, heavy sporadic drinking (i.e. consuming more than five drinks in 2 hours at least twice a month), at-risk drinking per the Alcohol Use Disorder Identification Test (AUDIT-C) score, and sexually transmitted infections (HIV-1, syphilis serology, Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrheae). Results Sixty-seven percent of women reported UPSI at last intercourse. UPSI was independently associated with heavy sporadic drinking [odds ratio (OR) 2.8, 95% CI 1.2–6.6] and having been pregnant (OR 2.25, 95% CI 1.1–4.6). Conclusions Despite the high risk for HIV acquisition or transmission and unintended pregnancy, condom use among the study population is low. Programmes to investigate and improve contraceptive use, including condom use, among this vulnerable group of women are needed. Such programmes may require identifying and targeting female reproductive health concerns and problem drinking, particularly heavy sporadic drinking, rather than conventional measures of alcohol misuse.

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Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia

Abdala

Hansen

Toussova³

et al. 2013

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care

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“…RDS is a methodology that is used to recruit statistically representative samples of hard-to-reach groups by taking advantage of intragroup social connections to build a sample pool (Abdul-Quader et al, 2006;Heckathorn, 1997Heckathorn, , 2002Heckathorn, Semaan, Broadhead, & Hughes, 2002;Robinson et al, 2006). RDS, like the similar recruitment strategies of snowball sampling and chain referral, has proven extremely useful in quickly recruiting large numbers of people from hidden populations, and it also allows researchers to describe the salient characteristics of the population and, in some instances, make population estimates.…”

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“…RDS, like the similar recruitment strategies of snowball sampling and chain referral, has proven extremely useful in quickly recruiting large numbers of people from hidden populations, and it also allows researchers to describe the salient characteristics of the population and, in some instances, make population estimates. Because of these advantages, it has increasingly been used nationally and internationally in studies of hard-to-reach groups, including IDUs, commercial sex workers, and men who have sex with men (Abdul-Quader et al, 2006;Simic et al, 2006). Similar to the corporate retail drug organizations in New York City that had to outsource their labor to survive in an altered landscape, these new outreach efforts to IDUs outsourced their labor costs to reach those who became otherwise unreachable when they moved indoors.…”

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The Transformation of Drug Markets and Its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New York City, 1987–2008

Curtis

Balletto

2011

Substance Use & Misuse

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This oral history describes three periods of street outreach to injection drug users at risk for HIV in New York City: outreach in an era of public drug markets (1987-1993), outreach in an era of private markets (1993-2006), and network-driven outreach (2006-present). Individual interviews with administrators and supervisors of outreach workers are combined with field notes from the ethnographic research experiences of the first two authors to contextualize, compare, and contrast these distinct periods. The combination and triangulation of these sources of data allow for an analysis of both the specific and the wider social and cultural contexts in which outreach intervention efforts were situated. Through these lenses, the article examines some of the reasons why they were or were not successful and discusses prospects for the future.

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“…One study found that a geographically concentrated set of seeds could successfully recruit PWID from a broader geographic area 20. Other studies have demonstrated more geographic heterogeneity in recruitment success 18 19.…”

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Spatial, temporal and relational patterns in respondent-driven sampling: evidence from a social network study of rural drug users

Young

Rudolph

Quillen

et al. 2014

J Epidemiol Community Health

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Background Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) has become a common tool for recruiting high-risk populations for HIV research. However, few studies have explored the influence of geospatial proximity and relationship-level characteristics on RDS recruitment, particularly among high-risk individuals residing in rural areas of the US. Methods In a social network study of 503 drug users in rural Central Appalachia, interviewer-administered questionnaires were used to collect relationship-level data (eg, duration of relationship, frequency of communication, kinship, social/financial support, trust, drug use and sex) and residential location. Demographic and drug-use similarity were also evaluated. Residential data were geocoded and road distance (km) between participants and (1) their network members and (2) the study site were computed. Seasonal patterns were assessed using node-level analysis, and dyadic analyses were conducted using generalised linear mixed models. Adjusted ORs (AORs) and 95% CIs are reported. Results Differences in distance to the study office by season and order of study entry were not observed (F=1.49, p=0.209 and β=0.074, p=0.050, respectively). Participants with transportation lived significantly further from the interview site than their counterparts (p<0.001). Dyadic analyses revealed no association between RDS recruitment likelihood and geographic proximity. However, kinship (AOR 1.62; CI 1.02 to 2.58) and frequency of communication (AOR 1.63; CI 1.25 to 2.13) were significantly associated with RDS recruitment. Conclusions In this sample, recruitment from one’s network was likely non-random, contradicting a core RDS assumption. These data underscore the importance of formative research to elucidate potential recruitment preferences and of quantifying recruitment preferences for use in analysis.

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Effectiveness of Respondent–Driven Sampling for Recruiting Drug Users in New York City: Findings from a Pilot Study

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Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia

Correlates of unprotected sexual intercourse among women who inject drugs or who have sexual partners who inject drugs in St Petersburg, Russia

The Transformation of Drug Markets and Its Impact on HIV Outreach to Injection Drug Users in New York City, 1987–2008

Spatial, temporal and relational patterns in respondent-driven sampling: evidence from a social network study of rural drug users

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