Methodological considerations in participant event monitoring of low-base-rate events in health psychology: Children's injuries as a model

Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 124-130

  Peterson, Lizette ^a   Brown, David ^a   Bartelstone, Jamie ^a   Kern, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Cape Fear Valley Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Injuries; Low base rate events; Methodology; Participant event monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INJURY; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIALIZATION;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SOCIALIZATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 0030100122     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.15.2.124     Document Type: Article

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