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 seven Rural Opioid Initiative studies that occurred between 2018-2020 and performs statistical analyses to observe RDS-generated validity in population-level prevalence estimates.

Abby E. Rudolph, Robin M. Nance, Georgiy Bobashev, et al.

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 24, 94

04/2024

Illicit drug use · Opioids · Prescription drug misuse · Research methods and resources · Statistics and data