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Evaluation of Respondent-Driven Sampling in Seven Studies of People Who Use Drugs from Rural Populations: Findings from the Rural Opioid Initiative

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Examines the efficacy of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) to recruit people who use drugs (PWUD) in rural populations. Analyzes 7 Rural Opioid Initiative studies that occurred between 2018-2020 and performs statistical analyses to observe RDS-generated validity in population-level prevalence estimates.
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Abby E. Rudolph, Robin M. Nance, Georgiy Bobashev, et al.
Citation
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24, 94
Date
04/2024
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Document
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Illicit drug use · Prescription drug misuse · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data