Applications and Recruitment Performance of Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling: Scoping Review

Yannick B Helms   ^{1, 2} , MSc ;   Nora Hamdiui   ^{1, 3} , MSc ;   Mirjam E E Kretzschmar   ² , Prof Dr ;   Luis E C Rocha   ⁴ , Prof Dr ;   Jim E van Steenbergen   ^{1, 5} , MD, PhD ;   Linus Bengtsson   ⁶ , MD, PhD ;   Anna Thorson   ⁷ , MD, Prof Dr ;   Aura Timen   ^{1, 8} , MD, Prof Dr ;   Mart L Stein   ¹ , PhD

¹ National Coordination Centre for Communicable Disease Control, Centre for Infectious Disease Control, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, Netherlands

² Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

³ Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud University Medical Center, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands

⁴ Department of Economics & Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

⁵ Centre for Infectious Diseases, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands

⁶ Flowminder Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden

⁷ Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

⁸ Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands