Understanding recruitment: outcomes associated with alternate methods for seed selection in respondent driven sampling.

Arm 2 seeds only were more likely to have dropped out of school (OR of 1.83) and to have income from non-employment sources (OR of 2.47) while arm 2 recruits were more likely to be solvent users (OR of 1.60; arm 2 seeds approached significance for this variable with a p of 0.056 and OR of 1.62)) and less likely to be street-involved youth (OR of 0.34).

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