Efficacy of convenience sampling through the Internet versus respondent driven sampling among males who have sex with males in Tallinn and Harju County, Estonia: challenges reaching a hidden population.
This paper examines challenges obtaining representative samples of males who have sex with males (MSM) in Estonia and provides descriptive HIV behavioral data gathered from four cross-sectional surveys; three using the internet, and one using respondent driven sampling (RDS) to recruit MSM in Tallin...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 21; no. 9; pp. 1195 - 1203 |
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| Formato: | research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2009
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