- Title
- Effects of introductory information on self-reported health behavior (letter)
- Creator
- Wolfenden, Luke; Kypri, Kypros; Britton, Benjamin; James, Erica L.; Francis, Jeryl L.; Wyse, Rebecca
- Relation
- NHMRC.1041867 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1041867
- Relation
- Epidemiology Vol. 24, Issue 1, p. 170-172
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/EDE.0b013e3182788c98
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- Accurate measurement of health behavior is critical to reliably estimating population prevalence, trends, and intervention effects. Although some objective measures exist, self-report of health behavior via questionnaires or interviews is often the only feasible method of collecting health behavior data in large population studies. Self-reported assessments of alcohol consumption and tobacco use typically underestimate actual use, whereas self-reported vegetable and fruit intake and physical activity typically are overestimates. A variety of survey design and administration strategies have been recommended to reduce such misreporting but few have been formally studied. We conducted a pilot randomized controlled trial to assess how providing introductory information and instruction to participants might affect their reporting of health behaviors.
- Subject
- health behavior; self-reporting; surveys; accuracy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1300917
- Identifier
- uon:20195
- Identifier
- ISSN:1044-3983
- Language
- eng
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