Exploring Different Sampling Strategies: A Description of Our Success in Reaching Hard-to-Reach Turkish and Moroccan Immigrant Women in The Netherlands.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

In the Netherlands, since 1996, there is a national cervical cancer (CC) screening programme in place for women aged 30-60 years. The participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is very low. To facilitate their informed decision-making, we developed a culturally sensitive educational video, and evaluated it through a questionnaire study. Since we used multiple strategies for the recruitment of respondents, we aimed (1) to explore which sampling strategy resulted in which type of respondents, (2) to investigate which sampling strategy and individual characteristics were associated with successful recruitment of other respondents, and (3) to examine similarity between those recruited via respondent-driven sampling (RDS).

Methods

Six sampling strategies were

SUBMITTER: Hamdiui N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11647058 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature