Qualitative Analysis
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RECRUITMENT, PBC
Qualitative interviews were conducted to understand the facilitators of and barriers to online alters’ transformation into offline egos for subsequent recruitment waves. The qualitative interviews were focused on 2 primary topics: alters’ demand for appointment-based HIV testing services and the utilization of e-reports. All the recorded data were transcribed into text and imported into ATLAS.ti 6.2 (ATLAS.ti GmbH) software for analysis. The textual information was coded according to the research objectives and interview outline, and the comparative method was used for multistage data thematic analysis, data mining by coding and categorizing, and screening meaningful content.All data management and statistical analyses were conducted using RStudio for Windows (version 1.4.1103; RStudio, PBC). A social network visualization graph was obtained using Gephi 0.9.4 for Windows (Gephi Team). All tests were 2-sided, and significance was set at 