Telephone peer recruitment and interviewing during a respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey: feasibility and field experience from the first phone-based RDS survey among men who have sex with men in Côte d’Ivoire - Inghels, Maxime; Kouassi, Arsène Kra; Niangoran, Serge; Bekelynck, Anne; Carillon, Séverine; Sika, Lazare; Koné, Mariatou; Danel, Christine; Desgrées du Loû, Annabel; Larmarange, Joseph; for the research team ANRS 12323 DOD-CI (BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2021)
Many respondent-driven sampling (RDS) methodologies have been employed to investigate hard-to-reach populations; however, these methodologies present some limits. We describe a minimally investigated RDS methodology in which peer recruitment and interviewing are phone-based. The feasibility of the methodology, field experiences, validity of RDS assumptions and characteristics of the sample obtained are discussed.
Keywords: journalArticle; Côte d’Ivoire; Men who have sex with men; Phone-based survey; Respondent-driven sampling