Reaching Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Comparison of Respondent-Driven Sampling and Time-Location Sampling in Guatemala City

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• Alternative Title:
  AIDS Behav
• Personal Author:
  Paz-Bailey, Gabriela ; Miller, William ; Shiraishi, Ray W. ; Jacobson, Jerry O. ; Abimbola, Taiwo O. ; Chen, Sanny Y.
• Description:
  We present a comparison of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) and time-location sampling (TLS) for behavioral surveillance studies among men who have sex with men (MSM). In 2010, we conducted two simultaneous studies using TLS (N = 609) and RDS (N = 507) in Guatemala city. Differences in characteristics of the population reached based on weighted estimates as well as the time and cost of recruitment are presented. RDS MSM were marginally more likely to self-report as heterosexual, less likely to disclose sexual orientation to family members and more likely to report sex with women than TLS MSM. Although RDS MSM were less likely than TLS MSM to report ≥2 non-commercial male partners, they were more likely to report selling sex in the past 12 months. The cost per participant was $89 and $121 for RDS and TLS, respectively. Our results suggest that RDS reached a more hidden sub-population of non-gay-identifying MSM than TLS and had a lower implementation cost.
• Subjects:
  Adult Article Cost-Benefit Analysis Cross-Sectional Studies Data Collection Guatemala Health Services Accessibility Hidden Populations HIV Infections HIV Surveillance Homosexuality, Male Humans Male MSM RDS Risk-Taking Sampling Studies Self Report Sexual Behavior Time Factors TLS

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• Source:
  AIDS Behav. 17(9):3081-3090
• Pubmed ID:
  23963498
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5679289
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  P30 AI50410/AI/NIAID NIH HHSUnited States/ ; D43 GH000014/GH/CGH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/ ; 6D43GH000014-05/GH/CGH CDC HHSUnited States/ ; P30 AI050410/AI/NIAID NIH HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  17
• Issue:
  9
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:9c041bfae5602fcd19be5385395e58025904043c3bd78c4ea02b4ba69e2cbc2f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49705/cdc_49705_DS1.pdf
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