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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Health. 2012 Mar;9(1):34–43. doi: 10.1071/SH11025

Table 1.

Roster of Studies Included in the Review

Country in which
Data Was
Collected
References Sampling Frame n Remarks
Adolescents and Young Adults
  Region-wide Godeau et al.16 Cross-national, cross-sectional school probability sample 33,943 Age: 15. Only data from Central and Eastern European region was used.
  Croatia Stulhofer et al.17, Bozicević et al.18 National, multi-stage stratified probability household sample 1,093 Age: 18–24.
  Poland Woynarowska et al.19 Cross-sectional school representative sample 2,893 Age: 16–18.
  Poland Woynarowska et al.20 Cross-sectional school representative sample 2,152 Age: 15–16. Subset of data collected in 2002.
  Russia Shorokhov et al.21 1st and 2nd grade university student convenience sample 100 Age: not specified.
  Russia Amirkhanian et al.22 Cross-sectional school representative sample Age: 15–17.
  Hungary Gyarmathy et al.23 Cross-sectional school representative sample 3,486 Age: not specified, secondary school students.
  Russia Bobrova et al.24 Random telephone sample 1,203 Age: 15–29.
  Slovenia Pinter et al.25 Cross-sectional school representative sample 1,095 Age: 16–18.
  Hungary, Russia Takacs et al.26 time-location sampling to access “seeds” and their egocentric networks 66/ Age: 19–21. In-depth interviews. Sample includes 12 egocentric networks.
  Croatia Hirsl-Hećej & Stulhofer27 Cross-sectional school representative sample 4,000 Age: 15–19.
  Slovenia Pinter & Tomori28 National, cross-sectional school representative sample 4,706 Age: 15–19.
  Georgia Goodwin et al.29 Three-stage stratified probability sample 2,880 Age: 14–17.
  Bulgaria, Hungary Kelly et al.30 In-depth interviews, time-location representative sample 42 Age: 18–42. Study was conducted in Roma community.
  Kazakhstan Hansson et al.31 Cross-sectional school and university representative sample 600 Age: not specified, subsample medians varied from 17 to 20.
  Ukraine Busza et al.32 Cross-sectional targeted and time-space convenience sample 805 Age: 10–19. Study was conducted among street adolescents.
  Russia Kissin et al.33 Cross-sectional targeted and time-space representative sample 313 Age: 15–19. Study was conducted among street adolescents.
Injection Drug Users
  Russia Niccolai et al.34 Respondent-driven sample 631 Sample includes both IDUs and non-injection drug users.
  Estonia Wilson et al.35 Time-location cross-sectional sample 266
  Russia Abdala et al.36 Convenience sample 159
  Russia Gyarmathy et al.37 Combined time-location and chain-referral sample 661 IDU dyads.
  Russia Somlai et al.38 Time-location representative sample 446
  Uzbekistan Todd et al.39 Cross-sectional sample 701
  Ukraine Booth et al.40 Time-location representative sample 900
  Czech Republic Bruchkova et al.41 Time-location cross-sectional representative sample 462 IDU subset only.
  Czech Republic Mikl et al.42 Time-location cross-sectional representative sample 599
  Bulgaria Vassilev et al.43 Cross-sectional targeted and time-location sample 773
Female Commercial Sex Workers
  Estonia Uusküla et al.44 Combined time-location and respondent-driven sample
  Latvia Kurova et al.45 Cross-sectional street and club sample 107 In-depth interviews and lab STI/HIV tests.
  Serbia Ilić et al.46 Cross-sectional street and club sample 191
  Lithuania Chaplinskas & Mårdh47 Cross-sectional street and club sample 73
  Russia Benotsch et al.48 Data subset of Somlai et al [31] study 100 Subset includes IDUs engaged in commercial sex.
  Armenia Markosyan et al.49 Convenience sample, 3 cities 98
  Turkmenistan Chariyeva et al.50 Cross-sectional street and club sample 8
  Uzbekistan Todd et al.51 Combined, cross-sectional time-location and snowball convenience sample 448
Men Who Have Sex with Men
  Russia Amirkhanian et al.54 Time-location representative sample 434
  Hungary Csepe et al.55 Time-location representative sample 469
  Russia, Hungary Amirkhanian et al.56 Time-location sampling to access “seeds” and their sociocentric networks 156 Sample includes 4 sociocentric networks.
  Estonia Tripathi et al.57 Cross-sectional convenience sample 79
  Slovakia Staneková et al.58 Time-location sample 119
  Slovenia Klavs et al.59 Venue-based convenience samples Range: 68–124 2001–2008 sentinel surveillance study.
  Croatia Štulhofer et al.60 Snowball 342 HIV-negative MSM only.
  Russia Kelly et al.61 Data subset of Amirkhanian et al [47] study 96 Subset includes MSM engaged in commercial sex.
  Russia Kelly et al.62 Data subset of Amirkhanian et al [47] study 126 Subset includes MSM with female sex partners.
  Croatia Kolarić et al.63 Combined venue and internet-based convenience sample 1,127
Prisoners
  Hungary Gyarmathy et al.65 Convenience sample 632
  Slovakia Staneková et al.66 Convenience sample derived from HIV discussion group participants 75
Labor Migrants
  Croatia Stulhofer et al.67 Time-location representative sample 566 Participants were recruited at medical examination clinics.
  Russia Amirkhanian et al.68 Time-location representative sample 499 Participants were recruited at medical examination clinics.
Roma (Gypsies)
  Bulgaria Kabakchieva et al.69 Time-location sampling to access “seeds” and their egocentric networks 296 Males only.
  Bulgaria Kabakchieva et al.70 Time-location representative sample 324 Males only.
  Bulgaria Kelly et al.30 Time-location representative sample 42 In-depth interviews.
People Living with HIV
  Croatia Zekan et al.71 Time-location representative sample 185
  Russia Amirkhanian et al.72 Time-location representative sample 470
  Russia Amirkhanian et al.73 Time-location representative sample 492
  Russia Grau et al.74 Respondent-driven sample 157 HIV-positive IDUs only.