title: A Systematic Review of Published Respondent-Driven Sampling Surveys Collecting Behavioral and Biologic Data.
abstract: Reporting key details of respondent-driven sampling (RDS) survey implementation and analysis is essential for assessing the quality of RDS surveys. RDS is both a recruitment and analytic method and, as such, it is important to adequately describe both aspects in publications. We extracted data from peer-reviewed literature published through September, 2013 that reported collected biological specimens using RDS. We identified 151 eligible peer-reviewed articles describing 222 surveys conducted in seven regions throughout the world. Most published surveys reported basic implementation information such as survey city, country, year, population sampled, interview method, and final sample size. However, many surveys did not report essential methodological and analytical information for assessing RDS survey quality, including number of recruitment sites, seeds at start and end, maximum number of waves, and whether data were adjusted for network size. Understanding the quality of data collection and analysis in RDS is useful for effectively planning public health service delivery and funding priorities.
authors.affiliation: University of California, San Francisco, Global Health Sciences, San Francisco, CA, USA. lsjohnston.global@gmail.com.|School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA. lsjohnston.global@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Lisa G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Johnston
authors.affiliation: Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Avi J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hakim
authors.affiliation: Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Samantha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dittrich
authors.affiliation: Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Burnett
authors.affiliation: Division of Global HIV/AIDS, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
authors.forename: Evelyn
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: CMMID and Faculty of Epidemiology & Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
authors.forename: Richard G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: White
mesh_terms: D001688:Biological Products; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D018451:Homosexuality, Male / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance; D018401:Sample Size; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012725:Sexual Behavior; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
chemical_list: D001688:Biological Products
keywords: Biological and behavioral surveillance; HIV/AIDS; Key populations; RDS; Respondent driven sampling