The comparability of men who have sex with men recruited from venue-time-space sampling and facebook: A cohort study

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Hernandez Romieu, Alfonso C ^a   Sullivan, Patrick S ^a   Sanchez, Travis H ^a   Kelley, Colleen F ^a,b   Peterson, John L ^c   del Rio, Carlos ^a,b   Salazar, Laura F ^c   Frew, Paula M ^a,b   Rosenberg, Eli S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Facebook; Men who have sex with men, MSM; Online MSM; Social media recruitment of MSM; Venue based time sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85097571376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.3342     Document Type: Article

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