Noncompliance in lifestyle intervention studies: the instrumental variable method provides insight into the bias

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 63, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 900-906

  Hertogh, Emmy M ^a   Schuit, A Jantine ^b,c   Peeters, Petra H M ^a   Monninkhof, Evelyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Behavioral changes; Dietary habits; Instrumental variable method; Lifestyle intervention study; Noncompliance; Physical activity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LIFESTYLE; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VALIDITY; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK REDUCTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77953616894     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2009.10.007     Document Type: Article

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