Extreme and acquiescence bias in a bi-ethnic population

European Journal of Public Health

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 543-548

  Baron Epel, Orna ^a,b   Kaplan, Giora ^a,c   Weinstein, Ruth ^b   Green, Manfred S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Israel)

^c GERTNER INSTITUTE FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY AND HEALTH POLICY RESEARCH   (Israel)

Author keywords

acquiescent response bias; Arab; attitudes; extreme response bias; Jews; knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; JEW; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH HYGIENE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SMOKING; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; ARABS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISCLOSURE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; ISRAEL; JEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; ORAL HYGIENE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREJUDICE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 77957331922     PISSN: 11011262     EISSN: 1464360X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurpub/ckq052     Document Type: Article

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