Potential and Challenges in Collecting Social and Behavioral Data on Adolescent Alcohol Norms: Comparing Respondent-Driven Sampling and Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a method successfully used to research hard-to-access populations. Few studies have explored the use of the Internet and social media with RDS, known as Web-based RDS (WebRDS). This study explored the use of combining both "traditional" RDS and WebRDS to examine the influences on adolescent alcohol use.

Objective

This paper reports on the recruitment processes and the challenges and enablers of both RDS and WebRDS. It details comparative recruitment data and provides a summary of the utility of both methods for recruiting adolescents to participate in an online survey investigating youth alcohol norms.

Methods

Process evaluation data collected from research staff throughout the study were used to assess the challenges and

SUBMITTER: Hildebrand J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705369 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature