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Using Respondent-Driven Sampling Methodology for HIV Biological and Behavioral Surveillance in International Settings: A Systematic Review

Malekinejad, Mohsen, Johnston, Lisa Grazina, Kendall, Carl, Kerr, Ligia Regina Franco Sansigolo, Rifkin, Marina Raven, Rutherford, George W.·2008·AIDS and Behavior

DOI 10.1007/s10461-008-9421-1

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To determine operational and analytical characteristics of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) in international settings and to explore factors that may affect recruitment of most-at-risk populations using RDS, we reviewed HIV biological and behavioral surveillance studies that used this method outside of the United States. We identified 123 eligible studies, 59 from Europe, 40 from Asia and the Pacific, 14 from Latin America, seven from Africa and three from Oceania. Studies collectively recruited 32,298 participants between 2003 and 2007; 53% of studies were conducted among injecting drug users, which generally had faster recruitment compared with studies among sex workers. All but 13 studies reached > or = 90% of their intended sample size, and six studies failed to reach equilibrium for key variables. This review has shown that RDS is an effective technique, when designed and implemented appropriately, to sample most-at-risk populations for HIV biological and behavioral surveys.

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“Elle a permis à de nombreuses reprises de produire des statistiques robustes sur des populations réputées difficiles à atteindre telles les travailleur·e·s du sexe, les usagers et usagères de drogues ou encore les personnes porteuses du VIH (Malekinejad et al., 2008).”
Background
Feasibility of Recruiting a Diverse Sample of Men Who Have Sex with Men: Observation from Nanjing, China
Tang, W., Yang, H., Mahapatra, T., Huan, X., Yan, H., Li, J., Fu, G., Zhao, J., & Detels, R. (2013) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077645 · Cited by 11
“Several studies have been conducted to assess whether RDS is a feasible strategy to recruit samples from hidden populations [5,7,8].”
BackgroundMethod
Application of the Respondent-Driven Sampling methodology in a biological and behavioral surveillance survey among female sex workers, Brazil, 2016
Damacena, G. N., Szwarcwald, C. L., Júnior, P. R. B. D. S., Júnior, O. D. C. F., de Almeida, W. D. S., Pascom, A. R. P., & Pimenta, M. C. (2019) · Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia · doi:10.1590/1980-549720190002.supl.1 · Cited by 11
Hombres que tienen sexo con hombres (HSH): reflexiones para la prevención y promoción de la salud
Estrada-Montoya, J. H. (2014) · Gerencia y Políticas de Salud · doi:10.11144/javeriana.rgyps13-26.htsh · Cited by 11
Enhancing sexual health and empowerment among migrant women sex workers: a community health worker-led intervention in Marseille, France
Mosnier, É., Hoyer, M., Artigas, F., Regnault, H., Richard, É., Michels, D., Mosnier, M., Inegbeze, G., Robledo, M. S., Spire, B., et al. (2024) · Frontiers in Public Health · doi:10.3389/fpubh.2024.1359363 · Cited by 11
Methodological Challenges in Collecting Social and Behavioural Data Regarding the HIV Epidemic among Gay and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men in Australia
Zablotska, I., Frankland, A., Holt, M., de Wit, J. B. F., Brown, G., Maycock, B. R., Fairley, C. K., & Prestage, G. (2014) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0113167 · Cited by 11
“In recent years, peer-referral approaches such as RespondentDriven Sampling (RDS) have become more widespread [13], offering both a methodology for accessing hard-to-reach populations as well as the potential to produce population estimates of key behavioural indicators.”
Background
Anal human papillomavirus and HIV: A cross-sectional study among men who have sex with men in Moscow, Russia, 2012–2013
Wirtz, A. L., Zelaya, C. E., Peryshkina, A., McGowan, I., Cranston, R., Latkin, C. A., Galai, N., Mogilniy, V., Dzhigun, P., Kostetskaya, I., et al. (2015) · Eurosurveillance · doi:10.2807/1560-7917.es2015.20.15.21095 · Cited by 11
“A full description of traditional RDS methodology can be found elsewhere [14].”
Method
HIV, hepatitis and syphilis prevalence and correlates of condom use during anal sex among men who have sex with men in the Republic of Moldova
Zohrabyan, L., Johnston, L. G., Scutelniciuc, O., Iovita, A., Todirascu, L., Costin, T., Plesca, V., Cotelnic-Harea, T., & Ionascu, G. (2013) · International Journal of STD & AIDS · doi:10.1177/0956462412472808 · Cited by 11
Self-citation
Global Trends of Monitoring and Data Collection on the HIV Response among Key Populations Since the 2001 UN Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS
Gall, J., Sabin, K. M., Frescura, L., Sabin, M. L., Erkkola, T., & Toskin, I. (2016) · AIDS and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10461-016-1618-0 · Cited by 11
Risk Behaviors and Perceptions Among Self-identified Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM), Bisexuals, Transvestites, and Transgender Women in Western Guatemala
Ikeda, J. M., Racancoj, O., Welty, S., Page, K. A., Hearst, N., & McFarland, W. (2018) · AIDS and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10461-018-2190-6 · Cited by 11
“LCPR is similar to the respondent-driven sampling (RDS) strategy [24], with flexibility to better direct referrals to different strata or locations or for when the underlying assumptions of RDS do not hold up (e.”
Estimating HIV and HCV prevalence among people who inject drugs in 5 Ukrainian cities using stratification-based respondent driven and random sampling
Zelenev, A., Shea, P., Mazhnaya, A., Meteliuk, A., Pykalo, I., Marcus, R., Fomenko, T., Prokhorova, T., & Altice, F. L. (2018) · International Journal of Drug Policy · doi:10.1016/j.drugpo.2018.09.010 · Cited by 11
Prevalence and correlates of alcohol and tobacco use among key populations in Togo in 2017: a cross-sectional study
Bitty-Anderson, A. M., Gbeasor‐Komlanvi, F. A., Johnson, P., Sewu, E. K., Dagnra, C. A., Salou, M., Blatome, T. J., Jaquet, A., Coffie, P. A., & Ekouévi, D. K. (2019) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2019-028934 · Cited by 11
Challenges of Respondent Driven Sampling to Assess Sexual Behaviour and Estimate the Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus(HIV) and Syphilis in Men Who Have Sex with Men (MSM) in Singapore
Chua, A., Chen, M. I.-C., Cavailler, P., Jiang, L., Abdullah, M. R., Ng, O. T., Chio, M. T., Koe, S., Tay, J., Wong, M. L., et al. (2013) · Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore · doi:10.47102/annals-acadmedsg.v42n7p350 · Cited by 11
Innovative Strategies for Remotely Sampling Hard-to-Reach Populations: Assessing Phone Versus Internet Respondent-Driven Sampling Approaches Among Venezuelan Refugees and Migrants in Colombia
Pham, P. N., Johnston, L. G., Keegan, K., Wei, C., & Vinck, P. (2023) · American Journal of Epidemiology · doi:10.1093/aje/kwad116 · Cited by 10
“Refugee and migrant populations living in informal settlements are difficult to sample with probability-based methods, because there is no exhaustive listing of group members for random sampling and because they are difficult to identify or recruit using population-based sampling frames (1).”
Self-citation
Behavioral Surveillance of Heterosexual Exchange-Sex Partnerships in San Francisco: Context, Predictors and Implications
Chen, Y., McFarland, W., & Raymond, H. F. (2010) · AIDS and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10461-010-9677-0 · Cited by 10
The Impact of Human Rights Violations and Perceptions of Discrimination on Health Service Utilization Among Injection Drug Users in Delhi, India
Sarin, E., & Kerrigan, D. L. (2012) · Substance Use & Misuse · doi:10.3109/10826084.2011.631676 · Cited by 10
“This method was adopted for its recruitment efficiency in terms of number of new recruits per week and timeliness in data collection (Malekinejad et al., 2008).”
Method
HIV decline associated with changes in risk behaviours among young key populations in Nepal: analysis of population-based HIV prevalence surveys between 2001 and 2012
Deuba, K., Ekström, A. M., Tomson, G. B., Shrestha, R., & Marrone, G. (2016) · International Journal of STD & AIDS · doi:10.1177/0956462416678303 · Cited by 10
Ensuring Inclusion of Adolescent Key Populations at Higher Risk of HIV Exposure: Recommendations for Conducting Biological Behavioral Surveillance Surveys
Johnston, L. G., Sass, J., Acaba, J., Cheng, W.-S., & Prabhu, S. M. (2017) · JMIR Public Health and Surveillance · doi:10.2196/publichealth.7459 · Cited by 10
“Many surveys of adult key populations include adolescents as young as 15 years [11,12]; however, disaggregated analysis that might inform donors and governments about 15-19 year olds, including disaggregation by sex, is rarely presented [14].”
BackgroundSelf-citation
Hepatitis C bio-behavioural surveys in people who inject drugs—a systematic review of sensitivity to the theoretical assumptions of respondent driven sampling
Buchanan, R. M., Khakoo, S. I., Coad, J., Grellier, L., & Parkes, J. (2017) · Harm Reduction Journal · doi:10.1186/s12954-017-0172-z · Cited by 10
“The incomplete reporting of the sampling method in surveys using RDS has been described before [13, 14] and is not surprising here given that the STROBE-RDS checklist was published after most of the included studies [15].”
BackgroundMethod
HIV prevalence, sexual risk behaviours and HIV testing among female sex workers in three cities in Sri Lanka: Findings from respondent-driven sampling surveys
Manathunge, A., Barbarić, J., Meštrović, T., Beneragama, S., & Božičević, I. (2020) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0239951 · Cited by 10
Sexual behaviours of men who inject drugs in Northeast India
Kermode, M., Armstrong, G., Medhi, G. K., Humtsoe, C., Langkham, B., & Mahanta, J. (2015) · Harm Reduction Journal · doi:10.1186/s12954-015-0038-1 · Cited by 10
“In brief, RDS is a sampling method based on social network theory and devised for more representative recruitment of hidden populations such as PWID [23-25].”
Method
Multiple routes of drug administration and HIV risk among injecting drug users
Vorobjov, S., Uusküla, A., Jarlais, D. C. D., Abel‐Ollo, K., Talu, A., & Rüütel, K. (2011) · Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · doi:10.1016/j.jsat.2011.09.014 · Cited by 10
“RDS analysis Tool v. 5.0.1 was used to calculate homophily to examine for possible recruitment bias (Volz, Wejnert, Degani, & Heckathorn, 2007).”
MethodInfluential
Possible HIV transmission modes among at‐risk groups at an early epidemic stage in the Philippines
Telan, E. F. O., Samonte, G. M. J., Palaypayon, N. S., Abellanosa‐Tac‐An, I. P., Leaño, P. S. A., Tsuneki, A., & Kageyama, S. (2013) · Journal of Medical Virology · doi:10.1002/jmv.23701 · Cited by 10
“They are trained to recruit a set number of individuals from their social network of peers [Magnani et al., 2005; Malekinejad et al., 2008].”
Background
Peer-based Retention Of people who Use Drugs in Rural Research (PROUD-R2): a multisite, randomised, 12-month trial to compare efficacy of standard versus peer-based approaches to retain rural people who use drugs in research
Young, A. M., Lancaster, K. E., Bielavitz, S., Elman, M., Cook, R., Leichtling, G. J., Freeman, E., Estadt, A. T., Brown, M., Alexander, R. L., et al. (2022) · BMJ Open · doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2022-064400 · Cited by 9
The Prevalence, Incidence, and Risk Factors for HIV Among Female Sex Workers—A Cohort Being Prepared for a Phase IIb HIV Vaccine Trial in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Faini, D., Msafiri, F., Munseri, P., Bakari, M., Lyamuya, E., Sandström, E., Biberfeld, G., Nilsson, C., Hanson, C., & Aboud, S. (2022) · JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes · doi:10.1097/qai.0000000000003097 · Cited by 9
Bias–variance and breadth–depth tradeoffs in respondent-driven sampling
Nesterko, S., & Blitzstein, J. K. (2013) · Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation · doi:10.1080/00949655.2013.804078 · Cited by 9
“For 3-coupon RDS processes, 9 waves are obtained on average, which concurs with the average reported in (Malekinejad et al., 2008).”
BackgroundMethodInfluential
HIV risks vary according to type of sex work in a cross-sectional survey from Nagaland, India
O’Halloran, A. B., Armstrong, G., Medhi, G. K., Sono, C. Z., Mahanta, J., & Kermode, M. (2014) · BMC Women s Health · doi:10.1186/s12905-014-0133-6 · Cited by 9
“Respondent-driven sampling is a sampling method based on social network theory that can be used to recruit hard-to-reach populations, such as FSWs [15].”
Method
Caracterização de mulheres trabalhadoras do sexo em capitais brasileiras, 2016*
Braga, L. P., Szwarcwald, C. L., & Damacena, G. N. (2020) · Epidemiologia e Serviços de Saúde · doi:10.5123/s1679-49742020000400002 · Cited by 9
Optimizing the implementation of integrated biological and behavioural surveillance surveys of HIV in resource limited settings-lessons from Nepal
Deuba, K., Ojha, B., Shrestha, R., Ekström, A. M., Marrone, G., Naresh Pratap, K. C., & Karki, D. K. (2014) · Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease · doi:10.1016/s2222-1808(14)60688-5 · Cited by 9
“Unique sampling technique such as respondent driven sampling (RDS)[7], a network based chain-referral sampling method, has successfully been used to recruit and calculate unbiased population estimates of hidden marginalized group both in high income and resource constrained settings[8,9].”
BackgroundMethod
Increased HIV Testing among Men Who Have Sex with Men from 2008 to 2012, Nanjing, China
Yan, H., Li, J., Raymond, H. F., Huan, X., Guan, W., Hu, H., Yang, H., McFarland, W., & Wei, C. (2016) · PLoS ONE · doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0154466 · Cited by 9
“Our RDS methods were identical for the two rounds, implemented by the same team, and theoretically more rigorous than convenience samples in obtaining representative cross-sectional samples of this hard-to-reach population [19, 20].”
Method
Using Partially-Observed Facebook Networks to Develop a Peer-Based HIV Prevention Intervention: Case Study
Khanna, A. S., Goodreau, S. M., Michaels, S., & Schneider, J. A. (2018) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/11652 · Cited by 9
HIV Prevalence and Associated Risks in a Respondent-Driven Sample of Illicit Stimulant Users in a Southern United States City
Meade, C. S., Towe, S. L., Xu, Y., & Rainer, C. (2020) · AIDS and Behavior · doi:10.1007/s10461-020-02793-6 · Cited by 9
Discrimination and mental health of highly educated immigrants in Hong Kong: The buffering role of group concentration
Gan, Y., & Tong, Y. (2023) · Cities · doi:10.1016/j.cities.2023.104326 · Cited by 10
All Shades of Green: The Anatomy of the Fridays for Future Movement in Italy
Tomnyuk, V., Varavallo, G., Parisi, T., & Barbera, F. (2023) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su151813917 · Cited by 8
“It should be stressed that RDS is substantially less accurate than generally acknowledged, and RDS might perform poorly when traits cluster in cohesive subpopulations [52,53].”
The Development and the Assessment of Sampling Methods for Hard-to-Reach Populations in HIV Surveillance
Wang, P., Wei, C.-Y., McFarland, W., & Raymond, H. F. (2024) · Journal of urban health · doi:10.1007/s11524-024-00880-w · Cited by 7
“Because of its alleged statistical strength and no venue-based limitation, RDS has quickly become a favored approach used in a variety of HIV surveillance studies among MSM, PWID, and FSWs around the world [55, 56].”
Population estimation and harm reduction among people who inject drugs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Deyessa, N., Senbete, B., Abdo, A., & Mundia, B. M. (2020) · Harm Reduction Journal · doi:10.1186/s12954-020-00407-x · Cited by 8
Effectiveness of a Community Empowerment Intervention to Improve Access to Pre-exposure Prophylaxis in Migrant Women Sex Workers: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Implementation Study
Mosnier, É., Artigas, F., Richard, É., Hoyer, M., Michels, D., Vandentorren, S., Girard, G., Nagot, N., Regnault, H., Mosnier, M., et al. (2023) · JMIR Research Protocols · doi:10.2196/42844 · Cited by 8
“Numerous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of RDS to engage adults in HIV research, particularly in stigmatized communities [29,30].”
Respondent-driven sampling among gay and bisexual men: experiences from a New Zealand pilot study
Ludlam, A. H., Saxton, P. J. W., Dickson, N. P., & Adams, J. (2015) · BMC Research Notes · doi:10.1186/s13104-015-1449-5 · Cited by 8
“Unusually, few RDS studies have been reported in high-income countries with established GBM communities in Western Europe or Australasia [4, 5], with the majority of successful studies undertaken in lower/middle income countries [6] or in North America [7–10].”
Consistent condom use and its predictors among female sexual Partners of People who Inject Drugs in Klang Valley, Malaysia
Manaf, R. A., Dickson, N. P., Lovell, S. A., & Ibrahim, F. (2019) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7855-1 · Cited by 8
Left behind?: male clients of female sex workers in Zambia
Carrasco, M., Rosen, J. G., & Phelps, R. (2020) · AIDS Care · doi:10.1080/09540121.2020.1718589 · Cited by 8
Progress toward the UNAIDS 90–90-90 targets among female sex workers and sexually exploited female adolescents in Juba and Nimule, South Sudan
Hakim, A. J., Bolo, A., Coy, K. C., Achut, V., Katoro, J. S., Arkangelo, G. C., Lako, R. L. L., Taban, A. I., Sleeman, K., Wesson, J., et al. (2022) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-022-12533-1 · Cited by 8
Assessing differences in groups randomized by recruitment chain in a respondent-driven sample of Seattle-area injection drug users
Burt, R. D., & Thiede, H. (2014) · Annals of Epidemiology · doi:10.1016/j.annepidem.2014.09.002 · Cited by 8

Authors: Malekinejad, M., Johnston, L. G., Kendall, C., Kerr, L. R. F. S., Rifkin, M. R., & Rutherford, G. W.
Affiliations: University of California, San Francisco (US)
Tulane University (US)
New Mexico State University (US)
Corresponding author: Malekinejad, Mohsen
ORCID: Malekinejad, Mohsen
Johnston, Lisa Grazina
Kendall, Carl
Rutherford, George W.
Venue: AIDS and Behavior
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2008-06-17
Volume: 12
Issue: S1
Pages: 105-130
ISSN: 1090-7165 (ISSN-L)
1573-3254
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-008-9421-1
OpenAlex: W2123624310
Cited by: 433
References: 36
Citations by year: 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 18 · 2020: 19 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 38 · 2015: 36 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 44 · 2012: 37
FWCI: 3.20
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: AIDS and Behavior (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: World Health Organization
Topics: Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Survey Sampling and Estimation Techniques
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Survey Methodology and Nonresponse
Keywords: respondent-driven sampling, HIV surveillance, most-at-risk populations, people who inject drugs, sex workers, recruitment, HIV behavioral surveillance
MeSH terms: Data Collection, Female, Humans, Male, Population Surveillance, Risk-Taking, Sampling Studies, Sexual Behavior, HIV Infections, Internationality

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