Acasi and face-to-face interviews yield inconsistent estimates of domestic violence among women in India: The Samata Health study 2005-2009

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2437-2456

  Rathod, Sujit D ^a   Minnis, Alexandra M ^b   Subbiah, Kalyani ^c   Krishnan, Suneeta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c Samata Health Study   (India)

^d ST JOHN'S NATIONAL ACADEMY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Computer interviewing; Data collection; India; Test retest; Women's health

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; POVERTY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF REPORT; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO COMPUTERS; COMPUTERS; DATA COLLECTION; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; POVERTY; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF REPORT; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79959689075     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260510385125     Document Type: Article

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