Color-coded audio computer-assisted self-interviews (c-ACASI) for poorly educated men and women in a semi-rural area of South India: "good, scary and thrilling"

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2260-2268

  Bhatnagar, Tarun ^a,b   Brown, Joelle ^c   Saravanamurthy, P Sakthivel ^d   Kumar, Raju Mohan ^e   Detels, Roger ^b  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d The Voluntary Health Services Chennai   (India)

^e National Rural Health Mission Government of Tamil Nadu   (India)

Author keywords

Acceptability; Color coded ACASI; Computer interview; Rural India; Sensitive questions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COMPUTERS; DATA COLLECTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIA; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF REPORT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879022904     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-013-0414-3     Document Type: Article

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