Using the Internet to recruit rural MSM for HIV risk assessment: Sampling issues
Using the Internet to recruit rural MSM for HIV risk assessment: Sampling issues
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DOI：
10.1023/b:aibe.0000044078.43476.1f
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发表时间：
2004-09-01
影响因子：
4.4
通讯作者：
Horvath, K
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作者：
Bowen, A;Williams, M;Horvath, K
互联网是一种新兴的研究工具，可能有助于与农村男男性行为者（MSM）联系和合作。对农村男子感染艾滋病毒的风险知之甚少，对因特网方法问题的研究才刚刚开始。互联网和传统的招募样本显示出他们的人口特征的相似性和差异。在这项研究中，农村男男性接触者从三个规模的城镇招募了两种方法：传统的（e。G.面对面/滚雪球）或互联网。按城市规模分层后，两组人口学特征相似。这两组人都可以随时上网。性风险的模式在不同规模的城市是相似的，但不同的招聘方法，与互联网组呈现出较高的艾滋病毒性风险的形象。总的来说，这些研究结果表明，互联网提供了一个有用的和低成本的方法来招募和评估艾滋病毒的农村白色男男性接触者的性风险。农村少数民族男男性接触者招募方法有待进一步研究。
The Internet is an emerging research tool that may be useful for contacting and working with rural men who have sex with men (MSM). Little is known about HIV risks for rural men and Internet methodological issues are only beginning to be examined. Internet versus conventionally recruited samples have shown both similarities and differences in their demographic characteristics. In this study, rural MSM from three sizes of town were recruited by two methods: conventional ( e. g. face-to-face/snowball) or Internet. After stratifying for size of city, demographic characteristics of the two groups were similar. Both groups had ready access to the Internet. Patterns of sexual risk were similar across the city sizes but varied by recruitment approach, with the Internet group presenting a somewhat higher HIV sexual risk profile. Overall, these findings suggest the Internet provides a useful and low cost approach to recruiting and assessing HIV sexual risks for rural White MSM. Further research is needed on methods for recruiting rural minority MSM.