Assessment of selection bias in a health survey of children and families - The IDEFICS Sweden-study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Regber, Susann ^a   Novak, Masuma ^b   Eiben, Gabriele ^b   Lissner, Lauren ^b   Hense, Sabrina ^c   Sandström, Tatiana Zverkova ^a   Ahrens, Wolfgang ^c   Mårild, Staffan ^b  

^a NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Children; Health survey; Obesity; Registers; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREGNANCY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; SELECTION BIAS; SMOKING; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWEDEN;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FAMILY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRIC OBESITY; PREGNANCY; REGISTRIES; SELECTION BIAS; SMOKING; SWEDEN;

EID: 84876799845     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-418     Document Type: Article

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