Non-response and related factors in a nation-wide health survey

European Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2001, Pages 991-999

  Korkeila, K ^a   Suominen, S ^a   Ahvenainen, J ^a   Ojanlatva, A ^a   Rautava, P ^a   Helenius, H ^a   Koskenvuo, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Consent; Health survey; Non response analysis; Personal data legislation; Response delay; Sensitive issues

Indexed keywords

TRANQUILIZER;

ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DIVORCE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANIC; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELECTION BIAS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0035758969     PISSN: 03932990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1020016922473     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Asch DA, Jedrziewski MK, Christakis NA. Response rates to mail surveys published in medical journals. J Clin Epidemiol 1997; 50(10): 1129-1136.
2. Helakorpi S, Uutela A, Prättälä R, Puska P. Health Behaviour among Finnish Adult Population, Spring 1999 (in Finnish, English abstract). Publications of the National Public Health Institute B19/1999.
3. Cottler LB, Zipp JF, Robins LN, Spitznagel EL. Difficult-to-recruit respondents and their effect on prevalence estimates in an epidemiologic survey. Am J Epidemiol 1987; 125: 329-339.
4. Jacobsen BK, Thelle DS. The Tromsø Heart Study: Responders and non-responders to a health questionnaire, do they differ? Scand J Soc Med 1988; 16(2): 101-104.
5. Bakke P, Gulsvik A, Lilleng P, Overå O, Hanoa R, Eide GE. Postal survey on airborne occupational exposure and respiratory disorders in Norway: Causes and consequences of non-response. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1990; 44: 316-320.
6. Jooste PL, Yach D, Steenkamp HJ, Botha JL, Rossouw JE. Drop-out and newcomer bias in a community cardiovascular follow-up study. Int J Epidemiol 1990; 19(2): 284-289.
7. Brussaard JH, Brants HA, Bouman M, Lowik MR. The study population: General characteristics and potential confounding factors. Eur J Clin Nutr 1997; 51(Suppl 3): S19-S24.
8. Rönmark E, Lundqvist A, Lundbäck B, Nyström L. Non-responders to a postal questionnaire on respiratory symptoms and diseases. Eur J Epidemiol 1999; 15(3): 293-299.
9. Macera CA, Jackson KL, Davis DR, Kronenfeld JJ, Blair SN. Patterns of non-response to a mail survey. J Clin Epidemiol 1990; 43(12): 1427-1430.
10. Etter J-F, Perneger TV. Analysis of non-response bias in a mailed health survey. J Clin Epidemiol 1997; 50(10): 1123-1128.
11. Van den Akker M, Buntinx F, Metsemakers JF, Knottnerus JA. Morbidity in responders and nonresponders in a register-based population survey. Fam Pract 1998; 15(3): 261-263.
12. Sonne-Holm S, Sørensen TIA, Jensen G, Schnohr P. Influence of fatness, intelligence, education and sociodemographic factors on response rate in a health survey. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1989; 43: 369-374.
13. Jacobsen BK, Stensvold I, Fylkesnes K, Schnohr P. The Nordland Health Study. Design of the study, description of the population, attendance and questionnaire response. Scand J Soc Med 1992; 20(3): 184-187.
14. Barton J, Bain C, Hennekens CH, et al. Characteristics of respondents and non-respondents to a mailed questionnaire. Am J Public Health 1980; 70(8): 823-825.
15. Boström G, Hallqvist J, Haglund BJ, Romelsjö A, Svanström L, Diderichsen F. Socioeconomic differences in smoking in an urban Swedish population. The bias introduced by non-participation in a mailed questionnaire. Scand J Soc Med 1993; 21(2): 77-82.
16. Forthofer RN. Investigation of non-response bias in NHANES II. Am J Epidemiol 1983; 117(4): 507-515.
17. Foster K, Campbell D, Crum J, Stove M. Non-response in a population study after an environmental disaster. Public Health 1995; 109: 267-273.
18. Janzon L, Hanson BS, Isacsson S-O, Lindell S-E, Steen B. Factors influencing participation in health surveys. Results from prospective population study 'Men born in 1914' in Malmö, Sweden. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1986; 40: 174-177.
19. Subar AF, Ziegler RG, Thompson FE, et al. Is shorter always better? Relative importance of questionnaire length and cognitive ease on response rates and data quality for two dietary questionnaires. Am J Epidemiol 2001; 153(4): 404-409.
20. King KA, Pealer LN, Bernard AL. Increasing response rates to mail questionnaires: A review of inducement strategies. Am J Health Educ 2001; 32: 4-15.
21. Dunne MP, Martin NG, Bailey JM, et al. Participation bias in a sexuality survey: Psychological and behavioural characteristics of responders and non-responders. Int J Epidemiol 1997; 26(4): 844-854.
22. Tennant A, Badley EM. A confidence interval approach to investigating non-response bias and monitoring response to postal questionnaires. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1991; 45(1): 81-85.
23. Pullen E, Nutbeam D, Moore L. Demographic characteristics and health behaviours of consenters to medical examination. Results from the Welsh Heart Health Survey. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1992; 46: 455-459.
24. Howe A. Refusal of videorecording: What factors may influence patient consent? Fam Pract 1997; 14: 233-237.
25. Hennekens CH, Buring JE, Mayrent SL (eds) Epidemiology in medicine. Boston/Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1987.
26. Sheikh K, Mattlingly S. Investigating non-response bias in mail surveys. J Epidemiol Commun Health 1981; 35: 293-296.
27. Statistical Yearbook of Finland 1999. Hämeenlinna: Statistics Finland, 1999.
28. Tuomilehto J, Puska P, Virtamo K, Salonen J, Koskela K. The levels of the major risk indicators of cardiovascular diseases in Eastern Finland prior to a community-based intervention programme (The North Karelia project). Acta Cardiol 1979; 34(6): 359-374.
29. Kaprio J, Koskenvuo M, Langinvainio H, Rita H, Sarna S. Psychosocial Factors and Morbidity: Hospitalization and Mortality in the Finnish Twin Cohort. Basic Tabulations of a Six Year Follow-up of 31,116 Finnish Adults. Helsinki: Department of Public Health, University of Helsinki, 1987.
30. Aromaa A, Heliövaara M, Impivaara O, et al. Health, functional limitations and need for care in Finland. Basic results from the Mini-Finland health survey (in Finnish, English summary,) Vol. 32, Helsinki/Turku: Publications of the Social Insurance Institution, AL, 1989.
31. Henkilötietolaki 523/1999 (The Personal Data Act 523/1999 in Finnish). Statutes of Finland, 1999.
32. Erityiskorvattaviin lääkkeisiin oikeuttavat sairaudet 1998 (Specified illnesses entitling to special reimbursement of medicines in 1998 in Finnish). Helsinki: The Social Insurance Institution, 1999.
33. Beck AT, Ward CH, Mendelson M, Mock J, Erbaugh J. An inventory for measuring depression. Arch Gen Psychiat 1961; 4: 53-63.
34. Koskenvuo M, Kaprio J, Rose RJ, et al. Hostility as a risk factor for mortality and ischemic heart disease in men. Psychosom Med 1988; 50: 330-340.
35. Breslow NE, Day NE. Statistical Methods in Cancer Research, Volume II - The Design and Analysis of Cohort Studies. Lyon: IARC, 1987.
36. Rothman KJ, Greenland S. Modern Epidemiology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Second Edition, 1998.
37. Agresti A. Categorical Data Analysis. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1990.
38. Lawlor DA, Stone T. Public health and data protection: An inevitable collision or potential for a meeting of minds? Int J Epidemiol 2001; 30: 1221-1225.
39. Boersma F, Eefsting JA, van den Brink W, van Tilburg W. Characteristics of non-responders and the impact of non-response on prevalence estimates of dementia. Int J Epidemiol 1997; 26(5): 1055-1062.
40. Silverbåge Carlsson G, Svärsudd K. Comparison of participants and non-participants in a population study of injuries. The study of men born in 1913 and 1923. Scand J Soc Med 1985; 13: 15-22.