Factors affecting study efficiency and item non-response in health surveys in developing countries: The Jamaica national healthy lifestyle survey

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Wilks, Rainford ^a   Younger, Novie ^a   Mullings, Jasneth ^a   Zohoori, Namvar ^a   Figueroa, Peter ^b   Tulloch Reid, Marshall ^a   Ferguson, Trevor ^a   Walters, Christine ^b   Bennett, Franklyn ^a   Forrester, Terrence ^a   Ward, Elizabeth ^b   Ashley, Deanna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EMPLOYMENT STATUS; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; JAMAICA; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; METHODOLOGY; PRODUCTIVITY; SAMPLING; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; LIFESTYLE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; JAMAICA; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 33947268597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-7-13     Document Type: Article

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