Abby E Rudolph, Robin M Nance, Georgiy Bobashev, Daniel Brook, Wajiha Akhtar, Ryan Cook, Hannah L Cooper, Peter D Friedmann, Simon D W Frost, Vivian F Go, Wiley D Jenkins, Philip T Korthuis, William C Miller, Mai T Pho, Stephanie A Ruderman, David W Seal, Thomas J Stopka, Ryan P Westergaard, April M Young, William A Zule, Judith I Tsui, Heidi M Crane, Bridget M Whitney, Joseph A C Delaney
BACKGROUND: Accurate prevalence estimates of drug use and its harms are important to characterize burden and develop interventions to reduce negative health outcomes and disparities. Lack of a sampling frame for marginalized/stigmatized populations, including persons who use drugs (PWUD) in rural settings, makes this challenging. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is frequently used to recruit PWUD. However, the validity of RDS-generated population-level prevalence estimates relies on assumptions that should be evaluated...
April 23, 2024: BMC Medical Research Methodology