Health status and disability comparisons between CATI calendar and conventional questionnaire instruments |
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Authors: | Robert F Belli Sangeeta Agrawal Ipek Bilgen |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Social Research Methodology, Faculty of Social Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | In comparison to conventional questionnaires, calendar interviews produce higher quality retrospective reports of factual
information. This study sought to examine whether calendar interviews would also be advantageous in collecting retrospective
reports of subjective assessment information. Respondents in a panel study were randomly assigned to either a calendar or
conventional questionnaire method; both methods asked for retrospective reports on years in which disability was present and
annual health status since young childhood. Panel data served as a source of validation for the retrospective reports. Both
methods tended to underreport the number of years disabled and yielded mean levels of better annual health status in comparison
to the panel reports. Calendar interviews demonstrated higher quality retrospective reports for disability in yielding a significantly
stronger correlation in the frequency of years being disabled and in providing a greater number of years of higher annual
correspondence with the panel data in comparison to the conventional questionnaire. Calendar interviews also demonstrated
the ability to preserve the slope of change associated with aging as seen in the panel data, whereas the conventional questionnaire
led to a significantly shallower slope of change. This latter finding could not be explained by the presence of an acquiescence
bias. |
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