Online respondent-driven sampling for studying contact patterns relevant for the spread of close-contact pathogens: A pilot study in Thailand

• Main Authors: Mart L. Stein, Jim E. Van Steenbergen, Charnchudhi Chanyasanha, Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul, Vincent Buskens, Peter G.M. Van Der Heijden, Wasamon Sabaiwan, Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lu, Anna E. Thorson, Mirjam E.E. Kretzschmar
• Other Authors: University Medical Center Utrecht
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Agricultural and Biological Sciences; Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/33067
• Institution: Mahidol University

Background: Information on social interactions is needed to understand the spread of airborne infections through a population. Previous studies mostly collected egocentric information of independent respondents with self-reported information about contacts. Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is a samp...