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Snowball sampling will always have selection bias because of purposive sampling.
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The nurses were recruited by means of purposive sampling.
Second, the use of purposive sampling as a strategy to select participants may enhance the internal validity of findings but because it involves non-random sampling, it may also introduce selection bias and limit generalizability [ 29].
Criterion sampling – a form of purposive sampling – was used to select participants (19).
The use of purposive sampling enabled the selection of participants who fulfilled the criteria for participation.
This aligns with case study and realist evaluation's principles of purposive sampling.
Because of the purposive sampling of audit cases by the audit teams, selected cases do not constitute a representative sample of all near-miss cases treated in the participating hospitals.
However, comparison with the prevalence study population (table 1) shows that the participants who were interviewed were similar to the questionnaire respondents except that, because of the purposive sampling, they were slightly younger and less likely to be of white ethnicity.
Still, we were able to overcome these sources of bias because of the combination of methods, the purposive sampling procedure undertaken and the comprehensive triangulation achieved.
For the recruitment of professionals, purposive sampling was used.
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