Using a 2-Stage Strategy with Respondent-Driven Sampling to Recruit a Hard-to-Reach Population for a Placebo Microbicide Gel Clinical Trial in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh (India)

• Published in: AIDS and behavior Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 369 - 379
• Main Authors: Tun, Waimar, Katzen, Lauren L., Abbott, Sharon A., Srikrishnan, Aylur K., Kelly, Christine A., Sarna, Avina, Friedland, Barbara A., Solomon, Suniti, Mensch, Barbara S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Springer US 01.02.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Anti-Infective Agents, Local - administration & dosage; Clinical trials; Female; Females; Health Psychology; Health Surveys - methods; HIV; HIV Infections - prevention & control; HIV Infections - psychology; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; India - epidemiology; Infectious Diseases; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Original Paper; Patient Selection; Peers; Pharmaceuticals; Preventive medicine; Prostitution; Public Health; Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; Recruitment; Risk; Risk groups; Sampling; Sampling Studies; Sex Work; Sex Workers - psychology; Sex Workers - statistics & numerical data; Time Factors; Vaginal Creams, Foams, and Jellies - administration & dosage; Workers; Andhra Pradesh India; Nellore India; India; Female sex workers; Microbicides; HIV prevention trial; Research subject recruitment; Respondent-driven sampling

Traditional recruitment methods for microbicide efficacy trials are labor intensive and may fail to reach high-risk hard-to-reach populations. We report duration of recruitment and lessons learned from a two-stage process to recruit female sex workers (FSWs) into a placebo microbicide trial, and exa...