The Utility of an Online Convenience Panel for Reaching Rare and Dispersed Populations.

ABSTRACT: Gaps in data collection systems, as well as challenges associated with gathering data from rare and dispersed populations, render current health surveillance systems inadequate to identify and monitor efforts to reduce health disparities. Using sexual and gender minorities we investigated the utility of using a large nonprobability online panel to conduct rapid population assessments of such populations using brief surveys. Surveys of the Google Android Panel (four assessing sexual orientation and one assessing gender identity and sex assigned at birth) were conducted resulting in invitation of 53,739 application users (37,505 of whom viewed the invitation) to generate a total of 34,759 who completed screening questions indicating their sexual orientation, or gender identity and sex at bir

SUBMITTER: Sell R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4671660 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature