Objective To study baseline demographic characteristics of cohortstudy among injection drug users(IDUs) recruited from community using peer recruiting method in respondent-driven sampling in Liangshan, Sichuan province.
Methods Baseline demographic characteristics of IDUs were investigated using recruited structur al questionnaire to find differences between using peer recruiting and other methods.
Results Of the 379 subjects, 309(81.5%)enrolled by peer recruiting, and 70(18.5%)enrolled by other methods.Onlyethnicity was found to be significantly associated with recruiting methods, others like age, gender, employment, education, annual income, marriage and housing of participants were notany significantly statistical differences.
Conclusion Peer recruitment of respondent-driven sampling is probably an effective tool.Further study should be conducted to getdemog raphic char acteristics and high risk behaviors influenced by peer recruiting.
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