Asking semi-literate adolescents about sexual behaviour: The validity of assisted self-completion questionnaire (ASCQ) data in rural Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 737-754

  Plummer, Mary L ^a,b,c   Wight, Daniel ^d   Ross, David A ^a,b,c   Balira, Rebecca ^b   Anemona, Alessandra ^a,b,c   Todd, Jim ^a,b,c   Salamba, Zachayo ^b   Obasi, Angela I N ^a,c   Grosskurth, Heiner ^a   Changalucha, John ^b   Hayes, Richard J ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^c African Medical and Research Foundation Mwanza   (Tanzania)

^d MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Africa; Illiteracy; Methodology; Reliability and validity; Sex behaviour

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE TO FACE QUESTIONNAIRE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INCOME; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MALE; MONEY; MOTHER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIVACY; QUESTIONNAIRE; READING; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF COMPLETION QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; STUDENT; TANZANIA; VAGINA; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHILD; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RURAL POPULATION; SEX FACTORS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TANZANIA;

ACARI;

EID: 3042551649     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2004.01254.x     Document Type: Article

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