Citation

Wang J, Falck RS, Li L, Rahman A, Carlson RG. Addict. Behav. 2007; 32(5): 924-937.

Affiliation

Center for Interventions, Treatment and Addictions Research Wright State University, Boonshoft School of Medicine, 3640 Colonel Glenn Highway, 110 Med Sci, Dayton, OH 45435, USA. jichuan.wang@wright.edu

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.addbeh.2006.06.031

PMID

16901654

Abstract

Increasingly, respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is being applied to study not-in-treatment users of illicit drugs. Although RDS has been successfully applied in recruiting active users in densely-populated, metropolitan areas, its utility with hidden populations in rural areas has yet to be determined. This study critically evaluates the sample of not-in-treatment, illicit stimulant drug users (n=249) recruited from the application of RDS in three rural counties in west-central Ohio. The findings of this study largely support the results of earlier studies in urban areas and suggest that RDS is a useful method of sampling hidden drug using populations in less densely populated rural areas. Some limitations of RDS are also discussed.

Language: en