评估夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民社区的健康状况和风险:以受访者为导向的采样方法
Mark L Willingham1, Rodney S Teria2, Louis Dulana2
1University of Hawai'i Cancer Center, 701 Ilalo St, Honolulu, HI, 96813, USA. MWillingham@cc.hawaii.edu.
受访者驱动采样 (RDS) 有效地招募隐藏群体进行健康评估. 这种方法为服务不足的社区及其社交网络提供了有价值的见解,改善了健康信息的传播.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
- 流行病学 流行病学
背景情况:
- 受访者驱动采样 (RDS) 是一种基于网络的采样技术,旨在接触那些通过传统方法难以接触的人群.
- 传统的采样技术往往无法从代表性不足或隐藏的人群中获取数据,导致健康评估数据存在差距.
- 了解这些社区内的社交网络对于有效传播健康信息至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估受访者驱动抽样 (RDS) 在收集夏威夷代表性不足人口的健康评估数据的有效性.
- 通过RDS收集的数据与传统监控系统的数据进行比较,例如行为风险因素监控系统 (BRFSS).
主要方法:
- 从2017年到2018年,在夏威夷进行了一项RDS研究,招募了夏威夷原住民,丘克斯人和马歇尔人的参与者.
- 分析了1006名参与者 (352名种子,654名新兵),并使用RDSAnalyst计算了网络大小数据.
- 权重的RDS样本与2018年夏威夷原住民/其他太平洋岛民参与者的BRFSS数据进行了比较 (n=1564).
主要成果:
- 在性别,年龄,教育,收入和癌症查变量方面,在RDS和BRFSS权重样本之间观察到显著差异.
- 身体质量指数 (BMI) 组和吸烟状态在两种采样方法之间没有显著差异.
- 在一年的时间内,RDS有效地招募了参与者.
结论:
- 受访者驱动采样 (RDS) 是一种有效的方法来接触隐藏的群体并收集健康数据.
- RDS提供了对服务不足社区社交网络的更深入的见解.
- 卫生信息的利用可能与这些人群中的社会联系密切相关.
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